Skill Point Reset: Difference between revisions

In many video games (mainly [[RPG|RPGs]]s), you [[Point Build System|can arbitrarily add points to your character's skill and attribute scores]] with each [[Level Up]]. Some of them additionally provide you with an item or character that resets your [[Player Character]]'s scores and lets you redistribute them from scratch. The idea behind such [['''Skill Point Reset]]''' is to let you optimize your build, better adapt it to the current level, and revert any character building decisions you came to regret.

See [[Discard and Draw]] for when this happens involuntarily (and not limited to video games) but you get your skill points back, and [[Bag of Spilling]] for when you don't. Compare [[Re-Power]]. See also [[Restart At Level One]]. Not to be confused with [[Power Nullifier]].

* ''[[Diablo II]]'' added a [[Skill Point Reset]] character with a patch: once per difficulty level, Akara can reset a character's ability scores.

* ''[[X -Men Legends]] 2'' allowed you to redistribute skill points for a price. The price increases by a couple orders of magnitude for a second reset.

* Skill reset functions are almost universally [[Revenue Enhancing Devices]] in [[Free to Play]] [[MMORPGMassively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPGsMMORPG]]s. The standard practice is to make them unavailable for purchase with in-game money or auction-able for vast amounts of it while being [[Bribing Your Way to Victory|one of the cheapest perks]] in the [[Microtransactions|cash shop]].

* ''[[Dragon Age]]: Origins - Awakening'' had the Manuals of Focus, consumable items that reset ''everything'' about the character (stats, skills, specializations, etc.). You got a similar for free in each extra [[Downloadable Content|DLC]] campaign where you could import your ''Origins'' character.

** ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' has a potion called Maker's Sigh, available from [[DLCDownloadable Content|The Black Emporium]], which functions the same way as the Manual of Focus in ''Awakening''. It's also possible for it to cause a bug that can make you gain infinite talent points.

* Red Mage of ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'' can edit his character sheet (or at least, he thinks to do so) to achieve this effect.

* A variation on this is "retraining" in ''[[Dungeons and Dragons|Dungeons & Dragons]]'''s fourth edition. Essentially, each time your character goes up a level, you can replace ''one'' choice you've made before (e.g. a trained skill, feat, power) with another of the same type as long as the change doesn't result in an illegal character (say, one with a feat whose prerequisite is suddenly no longer there). In addition, even without ever retraining characters of all classes will eventually hit some levels (starting at 13th) at which they are instructed to replace an old power with a new one; they ''could'' in principe just choose the old power all over again, but a 13th-level encounter attack power is apt to have a bit more "oomph" than the (likely) first-level one you're giving up for it.

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