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represents inability to inCrease his ranks in the skill that
Week, although payment is still required. the basiC dC is 10
+ neW skill rank adjusted as shoWn in table 2–6.
it should be noted that not all students are equal. if a
CharaCter is trying to inCrease his ranks in a Class skill
(equal to one skill point), use the guidelines presented
above. hoWever, if the CharaCter is attempting to gain a
rank in a Cross-Class skill
(equal to tWo skill
points), double the
time required. thus a
CharaCter attempting to
gain a rank in appraise as
a Cross-Class skill must
spend at least tWo Weeks
With a tutor before
attempting a skill CheCk
to determine his suCCess.
Table 2–6: downTiMe Training Modifiers
Khadoran
Institute of
Engineering
Education in Khador has traditionally been informal.
Elders teach the poor, and tutors and the clergy
teach the rich. The situation changed dramatically
once it became clear that the development of new
mechanika was vital to maintaining Khador’s military
and economic competitiveness. The Khadorans are
especially aware that they have fallen behind Cygnar
in military development. The Greylords Covenant,
founded in 243 AR, represents a step forward in this
area. Some years later in 295 AR, the Khadoran throne
established an institute with the agenda to stay current
with, or ahead of, Cygnaran technology.
At its founding, the Khadoran Institute of
Engineering consisted of a suite of workshops and
one massive stone hall. Now this hall has become a
museum of the past glories of Khadoran engineering,
and the original building sits like the boss in the
middle of a shield surrounded by factories and storage
depots. The workshops are reserved for the use of
the most senior academics, with extensions several
times the size of the original building set aside for
new members of the staff and their projects. Security
is tight; despite their location in the heart of Korsk,
an entire division of Winter Guard has been assigned
to protect the Institute and its secrets. However, there
are rumors that this is just the first line of defense
and that that the real threats to intruders are the
specially developed constructs that pound around the
perimeter of the buildings and patrol the warehouses
and factory passages.
The Institute serves a double purpose, and its
position in the heart of these factories is no accident.
Modifying Circumstance DC Modifier
Tutor has 12+ ranks in skill –2
Character has 6+ ranks in one or more strongly-related skills –1 per skill
First rank in a new, untrained skill +2
First rank in a new, trained only skill +4
Particularly easy skill –1 to –4 (GMs discretion)
Particularly esoteric or difficult skill +1 to +4 (GMs discretion)
Student encounters significant outside distractions during training +1 to +4 (GMs discretion)
Junior engineers are sent here in scores to study under
experienced tutors. They learn about gears, clockwork,
steam power, and hydraulics by working in teams under
the supervision of a master. They assemble simple
steamjacks, cast cannons, and construct automated
industrial units, and those students with sufficient
arcane aptitude are sometimes singled out by the
Greylords and offered apprenticeships. Those so
chosen move from their workshops to labs where
cortexes, optical instruments, and the like are built.
As the training school for the Khadoran Mechaniks
Assembly, hundreds come to study at the Institute each
year and put in their time working in the factories
before being inducted into the Assembly—if they are
deemed competent. A few, perhaps one or two from
every hundred, are invited to stay with the Institute.
They become assistants to the senior technicians
(engineers or Greylords depending on personal
expertise) and contribute to their projects through
laboratory work and field testing. Eventually the elite
few become project leaders themselves, appointed as
permanent staff to the Institute. It may be a harsher,
less personal approach than the kinds of tutelage
favored in Cygnar, but it is highly efficient, and the
Khadoran Institute is recognized across the kingdoms
for its innovative research and development.
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