Thomas Shey
Legend
Yeah, if I have a base competency I dont have expectations on continual character improvement. When I played E6 back in 3E/PF1 I realized I could make a level 6 PC and essentially play it forever as long as the exploration and political intrigue keeps up; Just like my Traveller games. Also, the Traveller examples dont make much sense to me in improvement anyways. After basic training you gain a bump in 1-3 skills every 4 years (and sometimes none at all). If you use most of the skill improvement rules the character is likely to outpace chargen on development anyways. Its just not D&D proportions so folks feel its not right.
I didn't expect a lot of it; as I said, it had big chunky skills that you picked up over time. It was that you couldn't pick them up at all except by training. That doesn't fit my perception of reality or fiction.