Ideas for a New long-term Campaign

[newton]

Originally Posted by Cheeseball

You are right, and that is why they seek the opportunity to go to advanced classes, or start (and finish) their studies early. You can play a very smart character who was stuck in school for years, but I don't see the point of it if we're talking about elite ones.



I think several things are getting mixed up here. If a student is not diligent, then he wastes his time, thus getting no skill points. IQ has nothing to do with it. And by going to class to listen to a lesson you already know, you don't learn anything, so you don't get any skill points either.

First of all: schools often only offer advanced classes for certain metrics of advanced, AP classes in highscholl might let someone with an IQ12 finish college faster but only for some values of faster.

Secondly: I should have made the distinction bewteen IQ and effort, if a student is struggling they might actually put more hours into learning through tutoring and furious studying but still might come out with a lower effective skill.

Regardless none of this talk of statlines and skill levels will make having more than one late twenties child-prodigy turned special forces character more believable to your players especially ones without significant disadvantages.