Exposure

Exposure in ArM5 refers to a method for gaining Experience Points. For other meanings of the term, see Related Topics below.

Gaining Experience Through Exposure

Exposure is a kind of learning by doing. Unlike other methods of gaining experience points, a character can get exposure while spending the Season doing something else. For example, if a companion spends a season working as a blacksmith, she makes a lot of horseshoes (and some money) and simultaneously gains experience points due to exposure.

Compared to other learning methods in ArM5, exposure tends to have a poor Source Quality -- with the exception of exposure to a Language Ability by immersion, which has a rather high Source Quality.

Past Editions

Exposure as a learning method did not formally exist prior to ArM5, but a related concept does appear in Fourth Edition: magi gained experience points in Magic Theory every season they spent working in the Laboratory.

Related Topics

• Training
• Practice
• Books
• Teaching
• Apprenticeship
• Deprivation (exposure to the elements), ArM5 page 180
• Long-Term Fatigue (exposure to the elements)

Legacy Page

The history of this page before August 6, 2010 is archived at Legacy:exposure