| From: | John E Pederson <lobo1@****.COM> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Skill Levels |
| Date: | Thu, 24 Jul 1997 21:28:06 EDT |
<scollins@**.UML.EDU> writes:
<< The problem is if you consider a skill of 6 in unarmed combat to be
equivilant to a black belt in some martial art and 9 to be on the
level of Kwai Chang Cain from the Tv series Kung Fu then it would only
take a normal person about 10 years to reach that level of skill and a
Shadowrunner about 2 to 3 years. I think a skill of 8 should be a
black belt and 15 should be where a true master of the martial art
should be.>>
The problem with your presumption is that it will take them about 10
years if that's *all* they do in that ten years. If they don't 'spend'
any karma improving other skills, getting new ones, etc. And since a lot
of the choice on where to put your karma would happen on a sub-concious
level, by the time such a person gets done, they'd have learned Unarmed
Combat (Kung Fu) (specialization whatever) of 5/8/10, Etiquette (Martial
Artists) 4, etc, etc. You'd probably have 3-4 new skills in the process,
as well as improving others. And you'll have improved your physical
attributes, too. The truth is that this is a _game_. The fact that things
don't always seem to stack up, doesn't necessarily matter (unless having
a perfect representation of reality is your goal, in which case, you're
playing the wrong game;). Initiates are rather rare, too (I/we estimated
that there about 3800 in Seattle a while back) but they get tossed around
like nobody's business:) Let's face it: average people get more than 5
Karma a year, they just don't *use* all of it on useful stuff.
--
-Canthros
I had rather believe all the fables in the legends and the Talmud
and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
--Francis Bacon
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