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I learned a tremendous amount from my college days, almost none of which had anything to do with what they were trying to teach me.

Universities are useful for both assisting and guiding the development of future adventurers. The ability to add new classes to a university's curriculum creates a lateral means of advancement that will cause the establishment to only increase in value after it has been constructed.

University Easier learning. Influence
caret-right Erudition Add cheaply to the curriculum. Influence
caret-right Laboratory Unlock new classes quickly. Economy
caret-right Repository Cheap keystones. Economy
caret-right Retrainer Change yourself. Vitality
caret-right Touchstone Make classes important. Influence

University

Influence plus-circleHalls of Learning: When you build a University, select any one unlocked class. Adventurers in the base can gain a level in that class without needing to obtain or use a keystone.

plus-circleExpanded Curriculum: Universities can be improved to grant their benefit to more classes than just their single starting one. Keep a list of every class that a university teaches (called the “curriculum”). New classes can be permanently added to a university's curriculum list by spending five keystones of the desired class (these become the starter teaching materials necessary to add the desired new program track).

minus-circleTeaching Staff: A university's curriculum list can have a maximum number of classes on it equal to the base's Influence rating.

minus-circleUnlocked Only: Only unlocked classes can be added to a university's curriculum.

Erudition

Influence plus-circleNew Offerings: Adding a new class to the university's curriculum list requires the use of two corresponding keystones instead of five.

plus-circleExpanded Course Catalog: The university's curriculum list can have a maximum of twice the base's Influence rating instead of being equal to the base's Influence rating.

Laboratory

Economy plus-circleR&D Spending: When you reverse-engineer a keystone but fail the die check to unlock its associated class, you can choose to retain the keystone you were using by spending 1 Dosh (and thus use it again for further research).

minus-circleNeed to Write a Grant: You can spend Dosh to retain a research keystone a maximum number of times per session equal tot he base's Economy rating.

Repository

Economy plus-circleGreat Library: The university maintains a large collection of books and other assorted materials related to its curriculum. Keystones of any class on the university's curriculum list can be purchased here at a cost of 1 Dosh each.

minus-circleMaterial Limits: The Repository can be used to purchase keystones a maximum number of times per session equal to the base's Economy rating.

Retrainer

Vitality plus-circleDifferent Way: Adventurers can challenge and relearn some of their most basic assumptions here. By spending 1 Dosh, an adventurer can reallocate the points distributed among either their combat ratings (Melee, Remote, Whelm) or their resource counts (Provisions, Supplies, Mojo). Reallocating 1 point means raising one rating by +1 and lowering another by -1.

minus-circleLimits: A Retrainer can be used a maximum number of times per session equal to the base's Vitality rating. These uses are shared among all adventurers.
caret-right Alternative plus-circleSelf-Reinvention: You can choose to learn new classes/abilities in place of ones you already know.

minus-circleKeystone Cost: Learning a new class/ability at the Retrainer costs one appropriate keystone in addition to the normal Dosh cost.

Touchstone

Influence plus-circleGrandmaster's Legacy: Complete mastery of a skill is rare and memorable. Whenever any player completely masters a class that's on the university's curriculum (learns every single ability that can be learned from it by taking six levels in just that class) put a star next to that class on the curriculum list. Starred classes are culturally significant in the game world from that point forward. Whenever any adventurer gains a level in any starred class by studying at the University, they immediately gain +1 XP afterwards.

minus-circleOld Dog, New Tricks: Only adventurers whose level is equal to or less than triple the base's Influence rating gain the XP benefits of a Touchstone.
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