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What have I done?
g33k:
--- Quote from: Taran on May 24, 2017, 01:43:05 AM --- @g33k I kind of like Investigation where it is. It's a good all-round skill and very useful for declarations. Fair Scholarship is High School/university Level and, from what I read, she only finished Jr. High before being shipped off.
Scholarship is super useful for the modern day book worm who can use a smart phone or computer to do lots of cool things. Maybe less so for a wizard? But that's just personal preference.
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I "like" Investigation, too. But the concept was specified as being "naive" and a good student, so Investigation seems less-apt, and Scholarship moreso.
And I'm forced to note that "Google-fu" and even hacking aren't "scholarship." Libraries work just fine...
In the end, it's up to what the OP wants. As you note, it's pretty easy to justify either, as-desired.
Taran:
Searching a computer is scholarship and not every use of a computer involves google or wikipedia. It also covers finding maps, researching government officials, brushing up on politics etc...all of which can be done on a computer. It's also libraries. But the last time I went to a library, I used a computer to find the book I needed. Anyway, Lore covers a lot of what she might be doing as well. That's all I'm saying.
I'm pretty sure the parents are well educated and the character just finished Jr. High. Did I mis-read?
--- Quote ---With her finishing Junior High School and the onset of menstruation (a little delayed with some 'mystic fiddling' on her parents part), Hope was informed that she we need to go and study further with her Uncle Duane in Baltimore.
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The next part I took as studying to become a mage. Not mundane scholarship stuff:
--- Quote ---Undertaking her new studies to the exclusion of all else, she is learning just what it takes to be a mage,
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I don't know if investigation and naïveté go together. I guess it depends how you interpret it. To me, someone who is gullible could be considered naive and that would be low Empathy not necessarily low perception. But yeah, Just making an observation. Not meaning to challenge your interpretation.
g33k:
I'm not sure, but I think we're actually quite close together on this issue... just on slightly-different sides of the same peak, as it were...
--- Quote from: Taran on May 24, 2017, 08:54:34 PM --- Searching a computer is scholarship and not every use of a computer involves google or wikipedia. It also covers finding maps, researching government officials, brushing up on politics etc...all of which can be done on a computer. It's also libraries. But the last time I went to a library, I used a computer to find the book I needed. Anyway, Lore covers a lot of what she might be doing as well. That's all I'm saying.
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One can pursue "scholarship" via computer tools, it's true! Or without. Scholarship is about finding the information; knowing what to look for, and how, how to contextualize and understand it, how to filter for valid information, etc. Computers are just one of the tools that are available.
Now, I grant you that computers are ubiquitous tools today, and incredibly valuable in searching for and sorting through all the information available to the modern scholar! But it's just not correct to equate or conflate "scholarship" with computer-use, or vice versa... They tend to go hand in hand, but that's just tend.
--- Quote from: Taran on May 24, 2017, 08:54:34 PM ---
I don't know if investigation and naïveté go together. I guess it depends how you interpret it. To me, someone who is gullible could be considered naive and that would be low Empathy not necessarily low perception. But yeah, Just making an observation. Not meaning to challenge your interpretation.
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Really, it comes down to how the OP wants to interpret their own PC. I think we've demonstrated that it's easy enough to go whichever way suits their vision! ;D
Taran:
--- Quote from: g33k on May 25, 2017, 04:52:12 PM ---I'm not sure, but I think we're actually quite close together on this issue... just on slightly-different sides of the same peak, as it were...
One can pursue "scholarship" via computer tools, it's true! Or without. Scholarship is about finding the information; knowing what to look for, and how, how to contextualize and understand it, how to filter for valid information, etc. Computers are just one of the tools that are available.
Now, I grant you that computers are ubiquitous tools today, and incredibly valuable in searching for and sorting through all the information available to the modern scholar! But it's just not correct to equate or conflate "scholarship" with computer-use, or vice versa... They tend to go hand in hand, but that's just tend.
Really, it comes down to how the OP wants to interpret their own PC. I think we've demonstrated that it's easy enough to go whichever way suits their vision! ;D
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Agreed.
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