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Brenda Cass: /* Improving or Adding Skills */ fixed typo

2021-01-18T23:50:27Z

Improving or Adding Skills: fixed typo

Jesse Roy: /* Adding or Improving Traits */

2021-01-18T22:58:27Z

Adding or Improving Traits

Jesse Roy: /* Improving or Adding Skills */

2021-01-18T22:58:16Z

Improving or Adding Skills

Jesse Roy: /* Gaining XP */ Dumped the trash "Skyrim is the best RPG" method of leveling.

2021-01-18T22:45:25Z

Gaining XP: Dumped the trash "Skyrim is the best RPG" method of leveling.

Jesse Roy: /* Improving Abilities */

2021-01-18T22:37:03Z

Improving Abilities

Jesse Roy: /* Improving or Adding Skills */ Modified XP system to use 10s instead of 100s.

2021-01-18T22:35:31Z

Improving or Adding Skills: Modified XP system to use 10s instead of 100s.

Brendan Cass: changed Skill Specialization to just Skill, added information on buying new special abilities, traits

2020-04-13T23:40:53Z

changed Skill Specialization to just Skill, added information on buying new special abilities, traits

Brendan Cass: removed reference to special abilities increasing ability scores

2020-04-13T23:29:51Z

removed reference to special abilities increasing ability scores

Brendan Cass at 17:06, 24 February 2017

2017-02-24T17:06:53Z

Brendan Cass at 17:00, 24 February 2017

2017-02-24T17:00:20Z

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 As a character gains XP she can spend them on improving her capabilities.
 ===Improving or Adding Skills===
-Skill Specializations are improved or added using XP, just like in character creation. New Skills always cost 10 XP while improvements are made using the scale in the following table, which represents a character's learning curve as they strive toward mastery -- making quick improvements in the beginning and slower improvements at higher levels of skill.
+Skill Specializations are improved or added using XP, just like in character creation. New Skills always cost 1 XP while improvements are made using the scale in the following table, which represents a character's learning curve as they strive toward mastery -- making quick improvements in the beginning and slower improvements at higher levels of skill.
-{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center
+{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
 !Skill Tier
 !Skill Bonus
@@ Line 74: / Line 74: @@
 ===Adding or Improving Traits===
 Players are able to give their characters new Traits or improve Traits that allow it. The cost for improving a Trait can be found on the following table.
-{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center
+{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
 !Trait Tier
 !XP Cost

@@ Line 74: / Line 74: @@
 ===Adding or Improving Traits===
 Players are able to give their characters new Traits or improve Traits that allow it. The cost for improving a Trait can be found on the following table.
-{| class="wikitable"
+{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center
 !Trait Tier
 !XP Cost

@@ Line 7: / Line 7: @@
 ===Improving or Adding Skills===
 Skill Specializations are improved or added using XP, just like in character creation. New Skills always cost 10 XP while improvements are made using the scale in the following table, which represents a character's learning curve as they strive toward mastery -- making quick improvements in the beginning and slower improvements at higher levels of skill.
-{| class="wikitable"
+{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center
 !Skill Tier
 !Skill Bonus

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 As characters adventure and successfully overcome challenges they become better at what they do. Swords of Infinity handles this by rewarding them with Experience Points (XP) that can be spent to improve the characters capabilities.
 ==Gaining XP==
-Storytellers have two options for awarding XP to player's characters, and may choose to use one exclusively over the other or combine them as makes sense in the story.
+Swords of Infinity uses a story based method of rewarding players with XP. This methodology involves giving out experience levels (EL, blocks of 10 XP) in response to players reaching some kind of milestone in the story. Story based rewards are subjective, and their magnitude and frequency is entirely up to the Storyteller. Using this method is useful in situations where the storyteller needs to control a party's capabilities in order to guarantee that the story is either challenging enough or not too challenging to the players, and it also saves players from having to do a lot of book keeping.
 ==Spending XP==

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 |}
-====Improving Abilities====
+====Improving Ability Scores====
 The Skills that players buy as they gain experience improve the character's ability scores. The key ability associated with it is increased by 1 for each tier of the specialization.

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 ===Story Based===
-Using the story based method of rewarding players with XP involves giving out experience levels (EL, blocks of 100 XP) in response to players reaching some kind of milestone in the story. Story based rewards are subjective, and their magnitude and frequency is entirely up to the Storyteller. Using this method is useful in situations where the storyteller needs to control a party's capabilities in order to guarantee that the story is either challenging enough or not too challenging to the players, and it also saves players from having to do a lot of book keeping.
+Using the story based method of rewarding players with XP involves giving out experience levels (EL, blocks of 10 XP) in response to players reaching some kind of milestone in the story. Story based rewards are subjective, and their magnitude and frequency is entirely up to the Storyteller. Using this method is useful in situations where the storyteller needs to control a party's capabilities in order to guarantee that the story is either challenging enough or not too challenging to the players, and it also saves players from having to do a lot of book keeping.
 ==Spending XP==
@@ Line 15: / Line 15: @@
 Skill Specializations are improved or added using XP, just like in character creation. New Skills always cost 10 XP while improvements are made using the scale in the following table, which represents a character's learning curve as they strive toward mastery -- making quick improvements in the beginning and slower improvements at higher levels of skill.
 {| class="wikitable"
-!Score
+!Skill Tier
-!Point Cost
+!Skill Bonus
-!Cost to Next Level
+!Tier XP Cost
-!Total Experience Spent to Next Level
+!Cumulative XP Cost
 |-
 |1
-|10
+| +10
-|10
+|1
 |-
 |2
-|20
+| +20
-|30
+|2
 |-
 |3
-|30
+| +30
-|60
+|3
 |-
 |4
-|40
+| +40
-|100
+|4
 |-
 |5
-|50
+| +50
-|150
+|5
 |-
 |6
-|60
+| +60
-|210
+|6
 |-
 |7
-|70
+| +70
-|280
+|7
 |-
 |8
-|80
+| +80
-|360
+|8
 |-
 |9
-|90
+| +90
-|450
+|9
 |-
 |10
-|100
+| +100
-|550
+|10
 |}
 ====Improving Abilities====
-The Skills that players buy as they gain experience improve the character's ability scores. The key ability associated with it is increased by 1 for each ten's place in the specialization.
+The Skills that players buy as they gain experience improve the character's ability scores. The key ability associated with it is increased by 1 for each tier of the specialization.
-  Example: Holtsmeistur just added a specialization of <u>1</u>0 in dodging (a ten's place of 1), which is keyed to Dexterity, this specialization improves his original Dexterity score of 2<u>0</u> to 2<u>1</u>
+  Example: Holtsmeistur just added a Tier 1 specialization in dodging (a +10 Skill bonus), which is keyed to Dexterity, this specialization improves his original Dexterity score of 2<u>0</u> to 2<u>1</u>
-=== Adding New Special Abilities ===
+===Adding New Special Abilities===
-Players are able to give their characters new Special Abilities when they level up. New Special Abilities cost 10 XP each.
+Players are able to give their characters new Special Abilities when they level up. New Special Abilities cost 1 XP each.
-=== Adding or Improving Traits ===
+===Adding or Improving Traits===
 Players are able to give their characters new Traits or improve Traits that allow it. The cost for improving a Trait can be found on the following table.
 {| class="wikitable"
 !Trait Tier
 !XP Cost
 !Trait Bonus
 |-
 |1
-|10
+|1
 | +10
 |-
 |2
-|30
+|2
 | +20
 |-
 |3
-|60
+|3
 | +30
 |-
 |4
-|100
+|4
 | +40
 |-
 |5
-|150
+|5
 | +50
 |}

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 As characters adventure and successfully overcome challenges they become better at what they do. Swords of Infinity handles this by rewarding them with Experience Points (XP) that can be spent to improve the characters capabilities.
-== Gaining XP ==
+==Gaining XP==
 Storytellers have two options for awarding XP to player's characters, and may choose to use one exclusively over the other or combine them as makes sense in the story.
-=== Success Based ===
+===Success Based===
 The success based method of awarding XP is the most straight forward one, but also involves the most book keeping on the part of players. With this method, whenever a character gets a passing success roll, without the aid of pushing past their limits, they gain one XP. Some players enjoy watching their XP tally up, while for others this method is a tedious chore, Storytellers should choose the method that suits their players the best.
   Storyteller's Note: Success based XP rewards have the potential to slow down the flow of the game if players are frequently taking breaks to spend their XP between encounters. If this is happening in your game, you may want to consider limiting the times when players do this to downtime (i.e. when their characters are resting, or even in between play sessions).
-=== Story Based ===
+===Story Based===
 Using the story based method of rewarding players with XP involves giving out experience levels (EL, blocks of 100 XP) in response to players reaching some kind of milestone in the story. Story based rewards are subjective, and their magnitude and frequency is entirely up to the Storyteller. Using this method is useful in situations where the storyteller needs to control a party's capabilities in order to guarantee that the story is either challenging enough or not too challenging to the players, and it also saves players from having to do a lot of book keeping.
-== Spending XP ==
+==Spending XP==
 As a character gains XP she can spend them on acquiring new Skill Specializations or Special Abilities, or improving existing ones.
-=== Improving Skill Specializations and Special Abilities ===
+===Improving Skill Specializations and Special Abilities===
 Skill Specializations and Special Abilities are improved or purchased using their XP, just like in character creation. They are improved or purchased using the scale in the following table, which represents a character's learning curve as they strive toward mastery -- making quick improvements in the beginning and slower improvements at higher levels of skill.
 {| class="wikitable"
-! Score
+!Score
-! Point Cost
+!Point Cost
-! Cost to Next Level
+!Cost to Next Level
-! Total Experience Spent to Next Level
+!Total Experience Spent to Next Level
 |-
 |1-10
@@ Line 71: / Line 71: @@
 |}
-=== Improving Abilities ===
+===Improving Abilities===
-The Skill Specializations and Special Abilities that players buy as they gain experience improve the character's ability scores. The key ability associated with it is increased by 1 for each ten's place in the specialization.
+The Skill Specializations that players buy as they gain experience improve the character's ability scores. The key ability associated with it is increased by 1 for each ten's place in the specialization.
   Example: Holtsmeistur just added a specialization of <u>1</u>0 in dodging (a ten's place of 1), which is keyed to Dexterity, this specialization improves his original Dexterity score of 2<u>0</u> to 2<u>1</u>

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 As characters adventure and successfully overcome challenges they become better at what they do. Swords of Infinity handles this by rewarding them with Experience Points that can be spent to improve the characters capabilities.
-== Gaining Experience Points ==
+== Gaining XP (Experience Points) ==
 Storytellers have two options for awarding experience points to player's characters, and may choose to use one exclusively over the other or combine them as makes sense in the story.
 === Success Based ===
@@ Line 10: / Line 10: @@
 Using the story based method of rewarding players with experience points involves giving out experience levels (blocks of 100 experience points) in response to players reaching some kind of milestone in the story. Story based rewards are subjective, and their magnitude and frequency is entirely up to the Storyteller. Using this method is useful in situations where the storyteller needs to control a party's capabilities in order to guarantee that the story is either challenging enough or not too challenging to the players, and it also saves players from having to do a lot of book keeping.
-== Spending Experience Points ==
+== Spending XP (Experience Points) ==
 As a character gains experience points she can spend them on acquiring new Skill Specializations or Special Abilities, or improving existing ones.
 === Improving Skill Specializations and Special Abilities ===