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darksied81 wrote:Could find this in the book or on the boards so I'll ask. Does anyone have ideas on the base age or the years of training cost on Mystic China O.C.C.s and the new martial arts there in?

No idea whatsoever. That concept was apparently dropped from Mystic China.

That being said, since about half of the styles come from N&S originally, you have that as a good base to start. Given the way the other martial forms tend to be, you're probably looking at anywhere from 5 to 15 years for a style, with the higher end found more for exclusive styles. Sticking with 6-8 for the forms in Mystic China is probably a good bet.

As for the the O.C.C.s themselves, that's a little tougher. For the martial artists, most can probably use the same starting age as the Worldly Martial Artist. IIRC, one of the MC artists gets to pick 2 martial arts forms, so I'd recommend using the Dedicated Martial Artist's starting age for them.

For the others, I'll have to think about it. I'll go out on a limb, though, & say that the Blind Mystic, Antiquarian & Entrepreneur/Capitalist (?) classes should start out older than the other characters. The first due to their additional mystic/martial arts training, the second because it takes a long time to accumulate both knowledge about tons of artifacts & the actual items for the collection, & the last one because unless you're born into money it takes a while to accumulate the wealth -- and even those born into wealth still have to spend some time actually working with it to establish their own reputation.