Buying new skills
- Thread starter Elandril
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KyleSchmelz
Fighter
The number of build points you have is based on your total amount of experience points. For each "experience blanket" (basically one for each day of an event*) you get a number of experience points equal to your current build total. The specifics of how it works aren't super important, so long story short, you start out getting a lot of build per event and later on you'll get more like one or two build each event. Here's a handy calculator you can play with to get a better idea of how quickly your character will grow up.
If you want to buy a new skill, you have to have someone teach you that skill IG. This doesn't apply if you're buying another rank of a skill you already have or have traded in for another skill (for instance, let's say you have 2 Weapon Proficiencies - you don't have to learn Weapon Proficiency or Critical Attack again, you can just buy the skill when you have enough build). On the other hand, you do have to have someone teach you each spell level - so if you have 4 level 1 spells, 3 level 2 spells, and 2 level 3 spells, you have to have someone teach you level 4 before you can buy the 4th level.
*You can get experience a couple different ways. The main way you'll probably do this is by attending events, which, as I said above, gets you one "blanket" per day of the event. You can also cash in 30 goblin stamps (earned by NPCing, donations to the chapter, etc) each month for an additional goblin blanket. In addition to that, you can also cash in dragon stamps, which are the national equivalent of goblins, for one dragon blanket each month. The easiest way to get these, short of serving in some sort of national staff position, is to donate props or costuming for the upcoming national event.
If you want to buy a new skill, you have to have someone teach you that skill IG. This doesn't apply if you're buying another rank of a skill you already have or have traded in for another skill (for instance, let's say you have 2 Weapon Proficiencies - you don't have to learn Weapon Proficiency or Critical Attack again, you can just buy the skill when you have enough build). On the other hand, you do have to have someone teach you each spell level - so if you have 4 level 1 spells, 3 level 2 spells, and 2 level 3 spells, you have to have someone teach you level 4 before you can buy the 4th level.
*You can get experience a couple different ways. The main way you'll probably do this is by attending events, which, as I said above, gets you one "blanket" per day of the event. You can also cash in 30 goblin stamps (earned by NPCing, donations to the chapter, etc) each month for an additional goblin blanket. In addition to that, you can also cash in dragon stamps, which are the national equivalent of goblins, for one dragon blanket each month. The easiest way to get these, short of serving in some sort of national staff position, is to donate props or costuming for the upcoming national event.
Draven
Count
Bonus points: Check this bad boy out!
http://caldaria.com/buildcalc.html
I used to use it to figure out in what order I wanted to spend my build. I'd probably use it again if I was making a new character.
http://caldaria.com/buildcalc.html
I used to use it to figure out in what order I wanted to spend my build. I'd probably use it again if I was making a new character.
SorinKatt
Artisan
There is also this http://alliancelarp.com/forum/threads/character-builder-spreadsheet-tool.15980/ which does much of the same and lets you save your build from game to game, sort of a self calculating character sheet.
Durnic
Knight
I love this tool, I use it for all of my characters and I know that my in-game group, the Order of Oakpalm, uses it too. It's awesome.