You don't need much of a home gym to get decently strong. I just have a chin-up bar and a pair of 7 kg dumbells and am in good enough shape to do five sets of twenty chin-ups. Not bad for being 43. Mostly focus on running though...

This is similar to how Call of Cthulhu does it.  It works but there are some problems.

It encourages players to roll as many checks for as many skills as possible hoping to get a success.  Characters will do things just to get rolls so they can maybe advance. 

Certain skills will go up much faster than others.  It will be whatever skills the GM calls for the most rolls with.  In CoC this is usually spot hidden, listen and library use.  Skills that rarely come into play will rarely if ever advance.   

Quote from: yosemitemike on Today at 01:07:32 AMI have had to quit every 40k group I am in on Facebook.  Discussion has been entirely consumed by people talking about female Custodes and another push by the woke types for female Space Marines.  That's the actual end goal here.  Custodes aren't prominent enough.  They weren't even an army you could play until 2018.  They want to make GW and the fandom accept female Space Marines when all of the existing lore says they can't exist.  They don't actually care about female Space Marines or anything else in 40k.  They care about making people comply.

Of course. The rubes belive it's about diversity and inclusion and making women feel "welcome", while the activists want to twist 40k so it fits their agenda to chog the thing up with horrible girlboss characters who fight the patriarchy. And fuck the people, men and women who actually like 40k for what it is.

I personally find Custodes leaving Terra to fight battles across the glaxy far more bothersome to the established setting than the idea of there being females among them.

I wouldn't use it for normal skill progression but there are two ways I think it might be useful.

First is getting a new skill.  IRL, there are several skills that have a first success barrier that can frustrate novices.  A good example is learning to ride a bike.

The second is overcoming a developmental plateau.  In your example of 0-100, what if 70 is the normal max someone can obtain through the usual skill development but you can break through this ceiling through intense training and pushing yourself to the limit until you finally overcome the limit. 

I would also add that even a failure shouldn't result in no positive results.  If a player rolls and fails to achieve attainment, then perhaps a point could be added to attempt counter that accumulates until the success happens.  Maybe this can be a roll modifier that makes the next attempt a little easier or maybe it can give an automatic success once a player has made 10 or so attempts.

And less than 10 hours and we've already hit Copper Bestseller.

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I have had to quit every 40k group I am in on Facebook.  Discussion has been entirely consumed by people talking about female Custodes and another push by the woke types for female Space Marines.  That's the actual end goal here.  Custodes aren't prominent enough.  They weren't even an army you could play until 2018.  They want to make GW and the fandom accept female Space Marines when all of the existing lore says they can't exist.  They don't actually care about female Space Marines or anything else in 40k.  They care about making people comply.

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