On Wed, 06 Oct 2004, Persephone Imytholin wrote:

> > If Beowulf had had to do that, he'd have been killed by
> > Grendel's mother. He snatched up a magic sword from the
> > troll's lair to kill her with.
>
> So, what if players had the option to hold a skill point
> or two without using them? Beowulf may have just had the
> right mix of FP and a spare skill point. Reserve skill
> points would even balance neatly inside the pyramid.

I seem to have missed the original message. :)

I'm a big fan of borrowing against the future. If someone
picks up an item that they want to keep with their
character that would cost them three skill points, then
their next three skill points are spoken for -- they don't
have to have them Right Now. (To behave otherwise is
terribly inflexible and unnecessarily punitive, IMO; but
that's how I roll.)

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