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I can't believe I never tried that :eek
I mean I thought of it but I assumed it couldn't be that simply and proceeded to over complicate things, thanks



I hear you! Sometimes I do that too. :)

Here's some text I wrote to put at the website:

SKILLS
Besides being immortal, Amberites can easily find a shadow with the appropriate time flow and learn any skill they want. Because of that, Cast Members should buy skills from the cinematic list. They should be treated as Special skills for cost purposes. Players can also buy Regular skills if they want to specialize their characters interests. However, the skill level of the specialty should be based on the cinematic level.

Example: Nei buys 5 levels of the Melee skill for his character, Frederique. This costs 10 points (2/level until level 5 for Special skills). He decides that Freddie has had extensive training with swords in general, so he buys 3 levels of that skill. Since this would effectively be level 8 (5 + 3) of the Hand Weapons (Swords) skill, it costs 9 points (3/level after level 5 for Regular skills). So Frederique has Melee 5: Swords 8, costing a total of 19 points.

If you dont mind the extra bookkeeping, you can also use the Optional Specialties. Say Frederique has a thing for rapiers and Nei decides to spend another point and further specialize his character in them. For 20 points, Freddie ends up with Melee 5: Swords (Rapier) 10 (he still has 8 levels with swords, hes just better with rapiers).

Tchau!