That's fine. I amused myself by making your Innate Skill under the spoilers in the first post "Reading Comprehension"Nerre wrote:I did read it, but I thought it was just flavour text, not actually telling us "just make up what you want". ;D
To some degree it is 'just make up what you want', but the way leveling will work, it will benefit you more to achieve smaller more manageable tasks than to all out right from the start. If your character's goal is to build an extremely complicated device to escape the castle and I set a CP level of 30000 for that task and you're rolling a single d3 each turn, that is going to take you forever to complete it. However, if you level up a bunch of related skills through the course of play, to attempt that same task and you're rolling 2d4, 1d6, 3d8, 2d12... it's still gonna take a long time, but you might be able to accomplish it. If you work with other sparks (if you can get over the paranoia and distrust that most hold dear), they might be experts in particular disciplines you lack and can complete them more easily than you can.
Also, since the rewards only come upon completion of a task, you may be able to approach things in a series of steps, and further modifications will be separate tasks. For example, if Alaen's character wants to make an clockwork weapon, he may wish to start by crafting an weapon, then crafting other components (while being able to use the weapon), then combining them. Completion of each task will result in the gain of SP, which may be enough to level one of his skills, making completion of the final task quicker.