Re: Secrets

From: Nick Eden <nick_at_...>
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 21:38:38 +0000

Benedict Adamson wrote:
> Greg Stafford wrote:
> ...
>

>>HeroQuesting to specifically raise a skill was the intended method of 
>>increasing
>>them to the level where a Secret might be gained.

>
> ...
>
> Still does not work. If you have the requisite 3 x 1W2 abilities, you
> are better off (again, from he rules PoV) spending your HPs on one of
> those 3 abilities rather than the Secret.
>
> IIRC, someone suggested on this list that, when you learn the Secret,
> instead of learning it with a rating of 13, you learn it at the level of
> the smallest of those three abilities.

Thinks...

Is a Secret an Affinity? The cost to increase a Secret isn't explicitly listed on the Hero Improvement Costs table. If the cost was +1 per 1HP,   then it would at least mean that the Secret could be brought up to speed very much more quickly than the affinities could.