Comment on “The Bardic Struggle”

Certainly a thinking player can find all kinds of ways to combine the capabilities granted by their studies: being stealthier or more sure-footed will expand the places in which one could set a trap, for instance.

When I said "benefits in all other areas" I was referring to upgrades like "Creativity + Performance does not increase the poet's repertoire, but it increases the level of the performance, changing that 1% x.p. bonus to 2%." I don't remember reading these kinds of crossover benefits between studies in your previous material. But, point taken: maybe I'm being myopic by only asking about effects from one study on another. What does it matter what part of the rules a sage study tweaks, whether it is HP recovered from resting (Medicine - Aid Rest) or attack rolls (Puissance - something) or another study outright (Creativity boosting Performance)?