# Teach NPCs your skills?
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/teach-npcs-your-skills/14611
**Category:** The Drawing Board
**Created:** [December 6, 2017, 6:53pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/teach-npcs-your-skills/14611 "2017-12-06T18:53:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@ShadowDragon8685](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ShadowDragon8685)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2017, 6:53pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/teach-npcs-your-skills/14611/1 "2017-12-06T18:53:56Z")
You can talk NPCs into teaching you skills - why can’t you offer to teach an NPC your own skills?
I mean, even as crappy as NPCs are now, this could still pay dividends; you could make your randos into skilled workers who can help you craft, you can improve their weapons skills to help you in a fight, and it would raise their trust in you.
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### Author:  [@psyxypher](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/psyxypher)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2017, 9:12pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/teach-npcs-your-skills/14611/2 "2017-12-06T21:12:55Z")
This would be so helpful for crafting.
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### Author:  [@jacob.exe](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/jacob.exe)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2017, 9:14pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/teach-npcs-your-skills/14611/3 "2017-12-06T21:14:36Z")
It’s all fun and games until an npc learns how to craft a makeshift flamethrower.
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### Author:  [@ShadowDragon8685](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ShadowDragon8685)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2017, 9:14pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/teach-npcs-your-skills/14611/4 "2017-12-06T21:14:56Z")
Then it becomes !!FUN!! and games, right?
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### Author:  [@jacob.exe](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/jacob.exe)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2017, 9:16pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/teach-npcs-your-skills/14611/5 "2017-12-06T21:16:14Z")
Cataclysm: Bright Days Ahead
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### Author:  [@DeWolf](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/DeWolf)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2017, 9:28pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/teach-npcs-your-skills/14611/6 "2017-12-06T21:28:54Z")
I forget can npcs read?
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### Author:  [@ShadowDragon8685](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ShadowDragon8685)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2017, 9:31pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/teach-npcs-your-skills/14611/7 "2017-12-06T21:31:39Z")
I presume they can. I mean, lore-wise; I don’t know if, but I doubt that NPCs are programmed to read.
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### Author:  [@proxiehunter](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/proxiehunter)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2017, 9:38pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/teach-npcs-your-skills/14611/8 "2017-12-06T21:38:45Z")
Not on their own but they read over your shoulder if you’re reading a book.
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### Author:  [@DeWolf](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/DeWolf)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2017, 9:59pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/teach-npcs-your-skills/14611/9 "2017-12-06T21:59:58Z")
Ah that’s what I was wondering.
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### Author:  [@kuros](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kuros)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2017, 2:37am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/teach-npcs-your-skills/14611/10 "2017-12-22T02:37:39Z")
You can choose to “Read until gains a level.”
Personally, I would love it if you could hand a book to an NPC and they’d read it on their own.
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### Author:  [@psyxypher](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/psyxypher)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2017, 2:44am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/teach-npcs-your-skills/14611/11 "2017-12-22T02:44:22Z")
Or just teach them like they teach you. Seriously, it takes them a very short amount of time to teach you their skills, but you have to resort to highly tedious book reading to teach them anything. It is rather frustrating, especially if they have low INT.
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### Author:  [@Steelmaniac](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Steelmaniac)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2017, 4:37am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/teach-npcs-your-skills/14611/12 "2017-12-22T04:37:10Z")
that would work granted the npcs wouldnt be fucking ass backwards retarded most of the time, in addition to not really being trustworthy.
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### Author:  [@psyxypher](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/psyxypher)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2017, 5:13am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/teach-npcs-your-skills/14611/13 "2017-12-23T05:13:04Z")
> [@Steelmaniac](#):
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> that would work granted the npcs wouldnt be fucking ass backwards retarded most of the time, in addition to not really being trustworthy.
One thing that annoys me is that random NPCs, when they give you a mission like “Kill Jabberwock”, won’t stick around. I had to chase my second in command to another city just to tell her I was done with the mission. Worth it though.
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### Author:  [@kuros](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kuros)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2017, 11:11am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/teach-npcs-your-skills/14611/14 "2017-12-26T11:11:30Z")
I’ve got a completed mission saying that I should go to an empty field next, presumably to collect my reward. No one there, though.
I wish we could increase the number of static NPCs rather than turn on wandering ones. Additional tiny groups to collect or do missions for would be great.
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### Author:  [@redxlaser15](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/redxlaser15)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2018, 7:59pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/teach-npcs-your-skills/14611/15 "2018-01-08T19:59:45Z")
Giving a book to the NPCs I shoved into my basement would be great! And if you are wondering _why_ I shoved them in there, it’s because they are idiots. Now they are trapped in there, forced to give me quests (if possible) and to do slave work in helping me build things! Muhaha!