Right now, we spend PP on a trainer to train in Theoretic Knowledge. But how about learning from books? In Morrowind, if you read certain books, you gain levels in certain skills. The problem with that is that all you need to do is open the book, you don\'t actually have to read it.
I would like there to be books that will raise your Knowledge, only after reading the story. At the end, after flipping throught the pages, there would be a little quiz, just to make sure you read it and deserve the Knowledge you are about to receive. The quiz would be asimple, one or two question multiple choice. If you get the right answer, your Knowledge increases, if you get the wrong answer, you get to sit there and wish you read the book. Now, the quiz is only available the first time you open the book, so there is no cheating.
I think this would be a pretty cool feature to be added in later releases. It promotes roleplaying, and is a nice addition to the current training system.
i love that idea
. it\'s be fantastic used in conjunction with the anti-cheating idea, and taking into account the whole literacy/level it\'ll teach angles
Maybe Silver Rain obtains a book containing knowledge of a lost glyph in the Crystal Way, and one or two other copies exist. The easiest way to obtain knowledge of this Crystal Way glyph is to join Silver Rain. As long as you are a member of Silver Rain, or own a copy of the tome, you have the ability to use the glyph. If you break the rules of the guild and are removed, or if you quit you lose the ability to use the glyph. This encourages guilds to be more close-knit in their beliefs as well.
while good in theory, i\'m not sure that part would work, afterall, once you learn something it\'s impossible to forget, so long as you use it daily.
1. I pick up a book that gives a rudimentary skill in knife making. (I know not implemented.) And I can learn from that book only the first level of knife making. Later on I find the book again, having a skill four in knife making. Oh well, the book gives me nothing, as I already know that basics. But I can give the book to someone else who can use it. If the book is too advanced for me it also does nothing, I have two levels of skill in knife making and the book teaches level 5. It will be too advanced for me to learn anything out of.
2. I read a book that teaches me the theory for mage craft, not the practical...
Excellent ideas
Hey, I think intelligence should come into play. Only people with a certain level of intelligence can read.
Good in theory, but you forgot one small thing. Reading is a skill that you have to learn. Being intelligent doesn\'t mean you can read (i know some pretty stupid people, and they can read rather well). Thats not to say it\'s a bad idea though, just instead of reading ability relying solely on intelligence, add a reading skill, which as you gain levels in the skill, your char starts understanding the written word. Intelligence could come into play as a cap for the max level of the skill, say.. 36 intelligence = max reading level of 6, at such a level some of the larger words would still be hard to understand.
I can think of many other possibilities, for example, people mentioned languages. Now, i\'m not even going to try and say it\'ll be easy to set up, as the languages would have to be created, but if languages are implemented, the language skills could become trainable after the character is literate. For example, once they can understand the basic books, the higher levels of intelligence, and language skill (could maybe have a sub-window for the language you wish to focus on) would open the way for higher reading levels, which would work with the language skill to make foreign books readable.
Maybe a skill will exist to copy a volume if you have enough paper, inteligence, and exp in the skill you are copying the book about.
Scribing should definately be considered, and intelligence should definately be a factor, but you shouldn\'t require knowledge in the field the book is about if you\'re just copying it (providing you can read it of course)
*glances back at what he just said* le sigh.. i did it again. eh well, i\'m sure anyone that doesn\'t like my idea regarding intelligence and proposed skills of reading and language being co-dependant will tell me.
