[PnP] Combat skill increase through education?

[Alex Koponen]

That is how the rules were written. And some would argue that in thirty 
days of instructed practice an EL0 novice SHOULD gain a few EL in skill.

         Alex K


On 4/25/2013 9:35 AM, Catac Lib wrote:
> On page 21, book I, it is written that skills can be increased through 
> training (days allocated to a particular skill), through instructors, 
> and through experiential training.
>
> I wondered if this applies only to "other skills", or to combat skills 
> as well.
>
> If it applies to combat skills also, one of my players could say to me 
> that, for instance, his character is entitled to start with comabt 
> skill EL higher than 0, because he is already 30 years old, and this 
> means he has had the time to train in his lifetime.
>
> Don't you think so?
>
> Anyhow, even if my player does not pretend this, he could tell me that 
> in between adventures his character is resting in a town for two 
> months, without doing nothing apart from training with his sword. In 
> this case he would automatically earn 60 expertise points with that 
> weapon! Don't you think that that is too much?
>
>
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