> Actually, if you look at the ability to succeed
> against a default
> resistance, the starting heroes aren't too tough.
> Where this can be hard to reconcile is with glorious
> write ups. It
> is easy to say "Archie is known as the hero of the
> battle of Blood
> Hill, where he siezed Arkat's spear and was awarded
> Heort's
> armring." However, really, he is more at the level
> of .. a newly minted
> journeyman).....lots of potential, some decent
> skills, but really no hot shot yet.
One way I've handled this is to say that she fought gloriously in such-and-such a battle, but the injuries she took there now slow her in combat. So in the past she may have had multiple masteries in combat, but now she's back down to a basic 5W or so. You *could* take the scars and slowness as a Flaw, but just balancing one against the other and dropping the combat skill to the one the rules allow is easier.
Or maybe she fought in a great battle, then went back to her spinning and weaving for a few years, and has lost her edge. Just don't assume that change in the past has always meant skills improving.
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