Talk:Training for Skills (3.5e Variant Rule)

Ratings

 * Don't forget that Training for Skills can never be as good as naturally gained skills. There's a cap yano. -- Eiji-kun (talk) 05:17, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Wording. Is confusing.
I'm not sure what you're getting at here Eiji, "For every skill point you gain you spend 100 xp and 1 week in training every 7 points (minimum 1 week). You can gain a number of skill points equal to half your class level for a particular skill, buying the skill as a class skill or cross-class skill as appropriate". There's bad punctuation or something in there. Unfortunately, the example doesn't clear it up much for me.

So here's what I think it is, and you can tell me if I'm right or not. Is the rule supposed to be that you can spend a week training, and in that time can gain up to 7 skill points at the cost of 100xp each? - Tarkisflux Talk 07:42, 22 February 2012 (UTC)


 * You can get up to 1/2 your level in skill points. It takes 1 week per 7 points you learn. It costs 100xp per skill point.


 * Ergo, you are level 17, you can get 8 skill points in whatever skills... Balance, Craft, and Perform, it will cost 800xp each. Since that's 8x3=24 skill points, it will take 4 weeks.  Does that help? -- Eiji-kun 07:50, 22 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Sorta... Is the 1/2 level a hard cap per level? So if I'm level 2, I can only train for 1 skill point until I level up? And the week per 7 skill points thing, does it take a week if I only get 2 skill points in that week (for whatever reason), or just 1 per day (by straightforward division)? - Tarkisflux Talk 07:59, 22 February 2012 (UTC)


 * The 1/2 is a hard cap per level, though you're free to put any normal skill points from leveling into there. The time period is mostly arbitary, I could probably say "1 skill point per day" and it works out well. -- Eiji-kun 08:16, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Proposals for alternate version
To implement the coming ideas might change the idea so much that it's better as a separate version of the variant, so this is more of an exploration of alternative ways to work this concept into a campaign... If there's a better place to discuss such a thing, let me know.

1 - The cost is instead something like (Level) * (Number of skill points gained in this way)^2 * 25 xp. (Some number other than 25 would work.. it just feels right, here.) This way, the cost is more balanced between low and high levels, somewhat addressing Aarnott's concern, and there's a practical limit on how many skill points can be gained like this, potentially addressing Ghostwheel's concern with a bit more work.

2 - There's a hard limit on the number of skill points gained in this way, probably equal to the base number of skill points for a character's highest-level class. This would almost certainly address Ghostwheel's concern, and would be less likely to get out of hand should you have some particularly clever players.

3 - There's a soft limit on the number of skill points gained in this way, probably based on either intelligence score or class level. This would be for the total number of skill points that could be gained, not a number per skill as in the current description.

I like the concept... I'm just wary, like most of those above. --Maninorange (talk) 09:17, 25 August 2013 (UTC)