Rank & Experience

Occupational Skills.

Occupational skills are used to represent the increase in experience, understanding and skill your character will gain over time and are intended to provide an opportunity for your character to specialise in areas that interest you. Most occupational skills are taught by the guilds, either exclusively to their own members or, more widely, to anyone applying for training. Skills taught by the guilds are detailed in a separate publication, Occupational Skills: A Guide to Advancement, which is available from Games Control at the Heartland Games, the Faction Moots and the Gathering and from the Lorien Trust throughout the year. Some more general skills are purchased from Games Control and these are listed below.

All occupational skills, whether purchased from the guilds or Games Control, take time to learn. You will not be able to use skills purchased at the Heartland Games, Faction Moots or Gathering until you attend a main event during the next year or register at Event Control. This delay represents the amount of time your character takes to learn any skill or ability to a useful level. Skills you are able to use will be shown on your character card; until a skill is shown on your character card, you cannot use it.

Occupational skills can only be purchased at the Heartland Games, the Faction Moots and the Gathering (no occupational skills can be purchased at sanctioned events). With the exception of income and scholar skills which may be purchased more than once, as detailed below. No other occupational skill may be purchased more than once, unless specifically stated in the skill description.

All occupational skills must be purchased using occupational skill points (OSP's). OSP's are issued by the Lorien Trust to our customers as thanks for continued loyalty and represent your character's potential for learning and the amount of time they may be prepared to spend in training during a year. If you choose to play a new character, or your character dies, any OSP's you have earned and have not spent may be spent on your next character.

Your OSP's will be sent to you with your ticket when you book for any of the Lorien Trust main events. If you book on the gate for an event, you will be able to collect your OSP's from Event Control when you register. The number of OSP's you receive depends on which events you attend each year; if you book in advance, you will be sent all your OSP's for the year, but if you book on the gate you will only be given OSP's for that event.

The table below shows the number of OSP's you will receive for each event.

OSP's are issued as round tokens. The colour of the token indicates the value, as shown below.

To purchase an occupational skill, go to the relevant guild or to Games Control with your character card and OSP tokens. Ask to purchase the skill you are interested in and pay the required OSP's. The guild or Games Control staff will take your name and the details of the skill(s) you have bought. These details will be processed during the year and your new skill will be on your character card when you book or register for your next main Lorien Trust event.

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