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Old 12-10-2013, 02:13 PM   #22
David Johnston2
 
Join Date: Dec 2007
Default Re: Tech Level appropriate skills

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Originally Posted by whswhs View Post
That's at least a possibility. I had thought of Harvey as having Anachronistic Skill to let him buy Physician and/or Physiology at TL4 after he discovered blood circulation.

I might say, though, that Galileo had Anachronistic Skill (Physics) and Physics/TL4, but Newton had High TL 1 and Physics/TL5 (along with Astronomy/TL5 and Machinist/TL5). It looks to me as if TL5 pretty much can be defined as "based on technologies that follow from understanding Newton."

Bill Stoddard
Personally I'd just go with having an extremely high level of the predecessor skill so you can beat the penalty.
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