Olympia PBEM

12.1: Sources of instruction

The source of instruction may be one of the following:

• The skill is commonly known, and may be studied anywhere once the category skill is known. When a category skill is learned, the player receives a lore sheet for the category in the turn report. The lore sheet lists the commonly known sub-skills which may be studied anywhere once the category skill is known.

  Some sub-skills within a category may not be listed in the category lore sheet. These are not directly studyable, even once the parent skill is known. They must either be learned from a scroll, a rare book, or through research (see research).

• The character is in a city which teaches the skill.

  Many cities offer instruction in skills. Shipcraft [120], for example, is commonly taught in port cities.

  The turn report lists skills taught by the location:

  Skills taught here:
     Alchemy [126]
  

• The skill was discovered through research, and is listed as `Partially known' in the turn report.

  Partially known skills:
     Improve ship rigging [9999], 0/7
  

• The player has a book which teaches the skill. Items which teach skills are shown in the inventory listing:

  Inventory:
               qty  name
               ---  ----
                 1  Old book [6001]
  
  Old book [6001] permits study of the following skills:
     Alchemy [126]