For the items, these are items that Delfi carries on his person every day, thus it's presumable he still was carrying them when he fell off the ship.
That and there's the point that without at least a bow my character wouldn't have a livelihood and thus wouldn't have any roleplay in a very negative way.
As for the competent skills - they're all very closely related skills and all of them are necessary for Delfi's work. Lowering them would mean he could no longer preform his livelihood with proficiency, which I believe is unrealistic considering how long he's being doing it. I'm not really sure what breathing room I have here.
Look at it this way:
Hunting as a skill requires more than just archery. It requires a means to find prey, track prey, knowledge of the habitats and behavior of prey,
Then a means to kill prey,
Then a skill to take the dead prey and turn it into something useful.
Blacksmithing, as a skill, requires blacksmithing.
Does that mean Hunting should take four times as long to get to a competent level than Blacksmithing just because there are multiple skills involved in it's profession?
That and there's the point that without at least a bow my character wouldn't have a livelihood and thus wouldn't have any roleplay in a very negative way.
As for the competent skills - they're all very closely related skills and all of them are necessary for Delfi's work. Lowering them would mean he could no longer preform his livelihood with proficiency, which I believe is unrealistic considering how long he's being doing it. I'm not really sure what breathing room I have here.
Look at it this way:
Hunting as a skill requires more than just archery. It requires a means to find prey, track prey, knowledge of the habitats and behavior of prey,
Then a means to kill prey,
Then a skill to take the dead prey and turn it into something useful.
Blacksmithing, as a skill, requires blacksmithing.
Does that mean Hunting should take four times as long to get to a competent level than Blacksmithing just because there are multiple skills involved in it's profession?