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TRAIN

The train command has three different purposes.

Training skills

Skills are automatically trained by your character in order not to forget them. You can use train to stop exercising in a given skill, so that you will eventually forget it:

  > train off dodge

This is quite useful to decay certain constantly used skills, like dodge.

If you later train on dodge, prac dodge or learn dodge, you will resume training in the skill, and it won't decay anymore.

Skills in which you are not training anymore are marked by an asterisk in the practice list:

  Skill / Spell       Knowledge  Difficulty  Class       Mana  Casting time
  Cure light         *Superb     Easy        Cleric        10  Very short
                     ^
                Not refreshed

Training abilities

Finally, train can be used to improve some of your base abilities ("stats") at the expense of others. For example:

  > train improve strength
  > train neglect constitution
  > train maintain perception
  > train revert will

Once you choose some stats to improve and some stats to neglect, they will start changing in the direction you required. The change is slow (it should take about one RL month to see some effects) and it is impossible to improve or worsen your stats too far from your unmodified abilities.

The order in which you improve or neglect your stats is irrelevant. You cannot train stats beyond the limits of your race.

The train status command shows your current choices.

Note: Unlike rerolls, training does not affect your practice percentages. The percentage to which you can practice a skill is only based on your unmodified abilities. This mirrors how a wound modifies your strength and doesn't alter your practice percentages.