Leveling up skills

[David Bofinger]

Originally Posted by Steve Plambeck

There's one mechanic among the choices at character creation, and another mechanic going forwards after creation. All my recent comments were specifically aimed at the workings of the latter.

Yes, that's what I'm talking about as well.

For a 32 point character a 2-point talent costs 1,000 XP and attributes cost 100 XP. There's no decision: attributes are clearly a better buy.

For a 41-point character a 2-point talent still costs 1,000 XP but an attribute costs 8,000. It's unlikely by this stage that anyone is buying attributes. Again, no decision.

In between there's a brief period where attributes and talents are both possible and there's an actual decision but it doesn't last very long, maybe only 1 point, maybe 2. That's why I say in principle yes, there's a decision, but in practice there isn't.