Missteps

[Shepherd]

Bob Schroeck wrote:

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As far as Doug's "advancement" is concerned, I'd rather think of it in GURPS terms, at least as long as I'm writing the stories. So,
it's not that Doug gains X levels, but that he gets a lot of points in cybernetics, and magical theory, and yeah, martial arts, and so on...

Well, in GURPS terms, a lot of Doug's XP probably went into learning a bunch of Gate songs that he'll almost certainly never get to use
again, since each individual Gate spell only takes you from one specific dimension to another specific dimension.

Similarly, many of his new technical skills will be at a different TL than his homeworld and will thus be of limited utility. After all, the Bubblegum Crisis
universe was probably one of the more technologically advanced worlds he visited, and most of their tech was still inferior to what he was used to using.

Finally, some existing skills may have suffered atrophy if he couldn't practice them for years at a time.
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