Abuse of Pick Locks?

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I was wondering if you could hyper-train Pick Locks by just
locking/unlocking one door over and over. I guess this would only be
useful if you have to lock a door in a pinch (such as monster chasing
you), since usually you're in no rush to lock/unlock doors, so you can
try it over and over... Climbing can be trained by falling in the same
pit repeatedly, so I was curious as to if Pick Locks could be trained in
a similar manner.

I haven't run any controlled tests on it, but it doesn't seem to help
train it too much, maybe just the maximum value that you can get it to
each level.

 

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Nick Strnad wrote:
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> I was wondering if you could hyper-train Pick Locks by just
> locking/unlocking one door over and over. I guess this would only be
> useful if you have to lock a door in a pinch (such as monster chasing
> you), since usually you're in no rush to lock/unlock doors, so you can
> try it over and over... Climbing can be trained by falling in the same
> pit repeatedly, so I was curious as to if Pick Locks could be trained in
> a similar manner.
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> I haven't run any controlled tests on it, but it doesn't seem to help
> train it too much, maybe just the maximum value that you can get it to
> each level.

Yes, you can. Almost everything that actually rolls against any skill
value will train it. I just tested this one in-game to verify;
continually locking & unlocking the same door eventually netted me an
increase.