From:	Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject:	Re: Skill Levels
Date:	Fri, 25 Jul 1997 12:36:34 +0100

Someone said...

> > Something else to keep in mind: In order to improve a skill
> > beyond a certain point, you may as a GM require that the
> > player ALWAYS have an instructor. You can only self teach
> > yourself so much.

That is plain nonsense. If it's impossible to teach yourself things
beyond a certain level of skill, we'd never have gotten so far as to
start using tools... The only way to expand knowledge is to learn things
that nobody else knows yet, which by the above statement would be
impossible because there's nobody to teach them to you.

> Who got Stephen Hawking from Astrophysics 9 to 10?
> He did. And who got him from 10 to 11? He did.
>
> At the point of being that high... only you can teach yourself,
> IMO...

My point exactly.

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