Learning weapon skills

[Gus]

Can you learn weapon skills like you learn language skills?  If you spar with a weapon you aren't familiar with, like say an axe (the chop skill), will you eventually learn the chop skill?

[Gorobei]

Nope.  The only skills that work like that are languages and pilot.  Maybe ride, too, I don't know.

[Cenghiz]

ride, pilot, languages... They're learned even if you don't have the skill AFAIK. But no, your Rukkian won't ever be a swordmaster.

[Angela Christine]

But no, your Rukkian won't ever be a swordmaster.

Well, not usually.  If some merchant joined the byn and doggedly attended training every morning despite getting his ass handed to him,  then eventually, after a few IC years, some imm might take pitty on him and give him a little skill (with a low cap) with his favorite weapon type.  I wouldn't count on it though.  But if you are trying to use an out-of-guild weapon regularily for, say, at least 6 RL months you could collect logs and petition the staff for a little help.

Once the GDB there was the story of a magicker who joined a group of warriors, and acted like a warrior.  He ignored his magickal abilities for so long that one day they changed his guild!  He _had_ been practicing warrior skills, and letting his mage skills atrophy to the point where he lost access to them.


Historically Muk was a great warrior.  Now he is a God/sorcerer/king.  At some point over the last few hundred years he picked up the skills of a sorcerer and a mindbender, but he probably didn't do it over night.


AC

[Bestatte]

Once I played a rukkian who had friends who liked to play darts. She was given hours-long lessons on the technique of dart-throwing, and played darts with her buddies semi-regularly. After several RL weeks, I figured by now she'd have at least a passing knowledge of the throw skill, so I e-mailed a log and asked for it. It was given to me, a "newbie-level" of the skill, with a very low max.

Mostly I did it because it made sense for her to have at least a basic knowledge of how to hold a throwing knife or a dart, and I never used it for combat. Maybe I would have eventually, but through her life as a PC in the game, I just never really needed it for anything else.

Oh and I think climb also pops eventually even if it isn't on your skills list.

[Vettrock]

Considering the amount limbing I did with some of my characters, (fell down some hole more than once)I don'y think climb ever appears on your skil list unless you start with it or branch it