Suppose you learn something in real life that you did not know when you were a verser? My uncle is a construction contractor, and my mother may be contracting him to put a door in a concrete wall. I will no doubt help, as the door will be in the apartment I'm moving into. I will learn about putting doors into concrete walls. Suppose that comes up in game somehow? Am I to be honest, that I didn't know that when I versed, so I can't use it unless I learn it in game? Or can you fudge it a little? This is kind of a question of honor, so I'm wondering. Thanks.
Fudge is a yummy Christmas treat, but I try to keep it out of my rulings. Graham asked me a similar question a while back; he wanted to use the things he was learning in his psychology class. My position on this is that your character can't use the new things you learn any more than you can use the new things your character learns. I told Graham that the minute he contacted me telepathically, I would let his character use what Graham had been learning in school since he versed out.
This is one of the interesting things about the game, I think. Not only do you get to watch your character grow and change independently from yourself, you get to see how much you yourself have grown and changed since you started play.
OK Scott, I get it. That's pretty much what I had in mind. I like the crack about telepathic contact too hahaha.
Well, I'll try to learn in game what I learn in real life. That would probably make it more interesting.
Oh and Scott. Mindreading is a 1@1 skill. By the rules of Multiverser, it would be theoretically possible for someone to develop mindreading in real life. So, don't knock the telepathic contact just yet, my friend.
Scott's right.
Of course, your character can attempt to teach himself anything, so if you come into a situation in which you have to put a door into a concrete wall, you can use your knowledge as player to explain to me what it is your character is trying to figure out how to do, and then we can roll the dice to see whether he learns it. So it's not entirely impossible that your character will be able to learn what you learn, it just has to be done independently.
Also, you yourself might get to be very good at this, but that level of skill does not translate to your character.
--M. J. Young