Oooh, good idea, though we should probably come up with a reason as to why we're suddenly so academically inclined - maybe we've been inspired to enter a difficult career path (preferably a solitary one) and want to make ourselves look more attractive to Universities/employers etc.?
Yeah, Learning is probably too broad. Mental Discipline seems to be close as we can get.
That makes sense, but if everyone's technically capable of magic and just don't know how it might be a case of figuring out how to start. Or it might be a complete dead end! Either way, I think investigation/research is likely to answer this one way or the other eventually and would almost certainly be useful in many other ways.
Well, we have multiple action slots - I'd like to take investigation/research earlier on if possible, since I think it might boost learning skills where we have to search for study materials.
Well yeah, we are asusming it might just be a case of figuring out how to start. And we have no idea, short of finding a mage to teach us. We had a vague idea that Meditation might do it, but apparently nah.
Well-
Pretty much this. With a peak human level ability to sniff out what's a genuine lead and what's just some creative shitposting, the internet would be even more useful than it is for regular people.
First, you assume that there are good instructions available to the public. If anything, those would be on the dark web behind a firewall.
That would only work if the internet stuff had anything even vaguely correct. If it's just hocus pocus, our power won't do anything for us. What's more, going through everything on the interent is gonna take A LOT of time. Weeks of effort to even go through a fraction of what the internet has.
That's exactly what the investigation skill would be for - to determine what's a dead end and what isn't.
There is not really that much different between being fit and be as physically fit as is humanly possible. We are already fit trying for more would be a huge amount of work for little gain. Skill is more useful.
But how would our Investigation Skill be able to divine the true stuff from the hoax? We have no skill in Magic, so have no idea what might work. All the skill would help us do is find the spells, not figure out which ones work, the only way ot determine that is to do them, which takes time, and there would be A TON of spells and rituals to work through.
We are already super fit thanks to our Martial Arts. Any futher needed fitness can probably be attained by working on the skills that would need that extra fitness.
It's under Threadmarks not Informational (for some reason), but it's the Character Sheet on Page 1, second post.
Even tattletale needed a lead to work off of. And we wont even approach her level of bs til we max any deduction skill (if it even exists).
The Character Sheet is the 2nd threadmark of the main Threadmarks list.
It's probably wouldn't hurt to try whatever that physical training you can do without moving is - the one where you tense your muscles against each other? It might be called compression training or resistance training? If we can do it without detracting from other training, that is - it might take an actio to lear
Given that investigation tends to work off of gut feeling, I'd expect it to point us towards viable leads. It might lead to nothing - especially if it turns out magic doesn't exist in this setting - but it equally could work, especially with effectively superhuman levels of inference, and I think that the investigation skill is worthwhile enough to be worth trying regardless.
I'm torn - I'd like to focus on more skills that improve our learning speed even tangentially, but Masteries are clearly a Big Deal, and getting those sooner might pay off/keep us alive in the short-term. After all, long-term planning is irrelevant if you don't survive the short term.
This is a modern setting Swords and Forge does not seem useful in this day and age.
