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In Nomine Line Editor
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Frozen Wastelands of NH
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In 3rd edition, there was this rule about points in skills not being more than twice someone's age. In 4e, points in skills kind of represent either "how natively good someone is" or they can represent how long someone's trained, depending on backstory. The chess prodigy five year old may have dumped 20-odd points into Chess skill, rather than being more than IQ 9. The grizzled veteran swordmaster has high skill because he worked at it for years. (Or the grizzled veteran swordmaster may have a high DX, because of all that training... Or the chess prodigy may just be a general genius of a 5-year-old, with IQ 16 and a fixation on Chess so you don't realize that she's just doing everything else by default!)
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