While other memeticists study the world memory in an abstract sense, the learner seeks to instead gain knowledge first-hand. By observing how creatures are able to interact with the world, he can deduce their underlying mechanics and, in the process, learn how to replicate the effects.

Whenever a creature uses a special ability, you can make a learning check as a reaction, which is d20 + your level bonus + your Intelligence modifier, against a DC of 15 + half the creature's level. If you hit, you gain a learned meme, which is a copy of that ability in all respects. You can choose to immediately replace one of your active memes with this learned meme; if you do, and the original meme was allocated to memory, you lose that memory until your next long rest: learned memes cannot be allocated to memory. They otherwise function as normal memes, including your need to load them.

You cannot learn a tech with the (weapon) descriptor.

Physical abilities learned through this ability that require an attack roll require a physical attack roll of the appropriate type (melee or ranged), while any other abilities require a memetic attack roll.

Abilities that recharge per encounter, recharge for you after a short rest; abilities that have a daily recharge, recharge for you after a long rest. All other abilities gain a recharge value as though they were a meme of the highest grade you could access at the level equal to the level of the creature you learned the ability from (for instance, you treat any learned meme learned from a creature whose level is 2 as though it were a Common meme, in terms of recharge value).

You can learn traits with this ability. Your learned memes gained from traits have a processing time of a move action, and a duration of 5 rounds.

Any bonuses other than untyped bonuses granted by a learned meme become power bonuses, regardless of their original bonus type.

This ability cannot be used on class or item abilities.

You can have a total number of learned memes equal to your Intelligence modifier. If you would gain a new learned meme and have already reached your maximum, you can immediately forget one of your existing learned memes; if you had loaded that learned meme into your cache, the new learned meme takes its place, but if the original had allocated memory, that memory is lost until your next long rest.

Maneuvers

The following is the learner maneuver list, ordered by grade.

While learner maneuvers are considered to be their own school, learners do not need to gain access to this school separately: learners can always learn maneuvers from this school regardless of what schools they have access to.

Note that a learner can only learn one basic stance from this school, determined by his choice of combat style.

Learner School

Maneuver List

The following is the learner maneuver list.

Regardless of the learner's chosen combat style, the learner adds these maneuvers to his maneuver list.

In addition to being martial maneuvers, and subject to the rules that apply to those abilities, these abilities are also considered Blue-aligned. As such, they allow for BO, and cannot be used in an area in which memetic effects cannot function.

Feats

The following are a selection of feats that are relevant to learners.

Design Notes

Well... turns out that a pure blue mage isn't really doable. That's too bad, but... well, it's been an informative fourteen years or so.

This is a close enough approximation, and with our move on the GM side to more 4e-style mechanics, this particular method of learning works out relatively well. So we're good, I think.

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