Shattered Kingdoms

This is outrageous. Being able to mentor people from verygood to superb isn't nearly enough of an incentive to gm. What the hell is so bad about gming anyways?

Mah paladin has managed to reap in 5 of those points so far. You just gotta keep with it and all.

Maybe you need to play a longer lived race too.

You're talking a unique ability to mentor higher, meaning guaranteed mentor points since the vast majority of skills have no advanced trainers, or very few.

Also possible would be jacking up the skill level limit as well, allowing journey/vet skills to be mentored accordingly.

Either way, the general idea is to essentially guarantee those skill points by interaction with the lower level people on their way up.

I'm all for this being combined with some other small benefits as well, but they'd have to be small benefits because this is an ability that does help a wide range of people on your side. For instance, if the GM population is cut drastically and the GM merc is anti-Empire, that GM is now affecting the balance of power ever so slightly to the anti-Empire side because higher skill levels require less training etc etc.

Hell, you know better than most what kind of impact you have from having parry at good/vg/superb/perfect is.

I've never gotten a mentor point.

Again, it takes a lot more than typing teach <character> <skill> 0.

It's rather hard to -actually- mentor someone. I mean, seriously--99.5% of the people playing this game know how to play already. I've done my damndest with Carmen to mentor students as far as possible--hell, I've have hour-long sessions of teaching a single student. And yet, in three years of playing, I've gotten 2 mentor points.

Sounds like that still only involves, mechanically, teach <character> <spell> 0.

When I say hour-long sessions, I mean "come sit in an old abandoned/haunted tower while I teach you the meaning of necromancy" for an hour.

Yes, I realize there is RP involved. That is meant to be a given. You'll note the qualification on my above post, I'm sure, but in case you didn't, I said "mechanically." As in, as far as the mechanics of the game are concerned.

Ah, I see what you mean. My bad.