From:	Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject:	Re: Changing one's Magical Path
Date:	Sun, 3 Sep 1995 10:27:00 +0200

>How about instead of scrapping the skill, we just drop it down to say
>half, and make him work back up from there. That way, he just doesn't
>forget his old knowledge but instead incorporates what he USED to know
>into what he now has to learn differently.

I used to have a player who used to play a schizofrenic (sp?) character:
half decker and half street samurai, and before you all shout "MUNCHKIN!"
let me explain that the other personality took over at sometimes rather
inopportune moments, or _wouldn't_ take over when really needed (she was
basically a decker, but the split personality was more of a fighting
machine). What we did was call some skills "decker skills," and some others
"samurai skills." Whichever personality was active at the moment could use
"its" skills at full level, but the skills for the other personality only at
one-half (rounded down, I believe).

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