i dont know if jade will use the same system as adom, but it would be maybe better if training a skill would enhance the dice roll of the skill on level up.

lets say you train archery by using missile weapons a lot. then you level up. normaly (without any training) you would have a 1d3 dice roll for archery, but you get 2d4, because you trained so much...

I don't really undestand what are you saying but.. if you are talking about raising skills after leveling up.. thats not possible in JADE, TB said that levels have no effect in skills, if you want to be a better fighter, fight, not just cast spells until you level up to raise it.

If you have seen the JADE video it seems pretty clear that his char gained a level and increased his skills similarly to ADOM.

But since JADE has "open-ended" skills, then it wouldn't hurt to provide slight increases in skills just by using them.

When? that was at the char creation, maybe just to chose what skills do you want

Also i watched the video again and the char was still lvl 1 then he died.

In adom, when you level up, there is a number for each skill (on the far right) in the format +xdy+z, where x, y and z are numbers (eg. +3d5+1). If you spend a skill point on a skill, the game will throw x y-sided dice and then the skill will be enhanced by the sum of the numbers on the dice and z (for +3d5+1, its a number between 4 and 16).

So Im saying that training a skill could enhance the dice roll... If you dont want to have the possibility that the player casts only spells and then could enhance his warrior skills, then I would suggest, that every time the player levels up, the dice rolls would be set to +0. Then, if he trains a skill in some way, the dice roll would enhance according to how much he has trained it. +0 => +1 => 1d2 => 1d3 => 1d4 => 2d2 ...

could you show me where? ive missed that

If the skills are "open ended", then there would be no need for all this (although im not absolutely sure, what do you mean with "open ended", free to raise without leveling up, or without a lvl cap?). I just thought, that jade would be similar to adom in this.


EDITED:
http://www.adom.de/jade/12249802.php3

My bad... Didnt read this before. Level will have minor influence on the game. So just forget what i said :P