Re: [HOE] Math question

[Matt Crawford <matt@severian.chi.il.us>]

> And you can (sort of) gloss this -- as you are learning a skill, you pass
> through stages where you are expanding your abilities and other stages
> where you are refining them. During expansions, you are more likely to
> make catastrophic errors. During refinement periods, you are less likely
> to make catastrophic errors. This is modelled by the odd-even progression
> of raising an aptitude.

Ugh, tell me about it.  Tired of almost always getting one action
card, I wanted to raise my DL character's Quickness from 2d4 to 4d4.
Unfortunately, I was stuck at the 3d4 intermediate level for an
entire 3- or 4-session adventure.  "Don't bother me, I'm communing
with the spirits again.  Zzzzz."  (That character had three deuces
during generation.)