Just-In-Time Skill Raising

This page addresses the issue of a PC raising skills "on the fly" in the middle of an adventure.

The problem is this: A character's skill is pretty low and they need to make an important roll. They could use "Extra Effort" rules, but sometimes even that isn't enough. So here's what we do: Allow a player to put unspent character points into a skill in mid-adventure. Here are the provisos for doing this:

• The player must have some unspent (spare) character points that he can spend. If he hasn't got any, there's no point proceeding.
• The player must have made at least one roll at the skill default (attribute-N) or previous skill level.
• If the player does not have the skill right now, he can't put more than 1 point into it. If the player already has the skill, he can only put in as many points as are required to raise the skill one level.
• The player can only raise skills "just-in-time" once per game session.

I should probably write up some examples of this someday.