1.9.1 Approach to buying skill scores

A character's skill scores are obtained by allocating cps to the skills. The way to buy skill scores is, therefore, to allocate cps to them. There are two stages to this:

• During character generation, many of a character's skills will be required as a result of his/her background. The background bonuses he/she obtains also require him/her to allocate a minimum number of cps to certain skills.
• Once all background skills have been bought, further cps may be allocated to the same or new skills to increase their scores. During character generation, there is a maximum number of extra cps that can be allocated to any skill (based on the starting cp value of the character).
• In later play, the character will be awarded experience points and additional background bonuses, that enable the player to allocate extra cps to the character's skills, increasing his/her scores. A character's skill score is based on the number of cps allocated to that skill. There is no limit to the number of cps that may be allocated to a particular skill, though limits (see 1.9.2) put a practical limit on the number of cps it is sensible to allocate.

See also:

• Character generation process;
• Previous step in character generation: Fleshing out character's background;
• Next step in character generation: Defining character's relationships with others.