William is looking at taking investigative points in Linguistics, Textual Analysis, History, Oral History, plus minimal amounts of Anthropology, Art History, Document Analysis, Occultism, Theology, Flattery or Bargain, and of course Bureaucracy, Research (= Library Use?), and Languages.
Is the optional rule of swapping Investigative for General points between players in effect? [never mind!] If it is, William — a man of cerebral action — has more of the latter than he knows what to do with, and would like to trade a bunch of General points for other people's Investigative. Say, up to 9 General points in return for up to 3 Investigative?
RPGs tend to make multilingualism more difficult than it is in the real world — probably too many Americans writing them ;) This makes it harder to model academics in William's field — where you'd be expected to have control over four or five just as an absolute minimum to get your PhD, let alone pursue any kind of career!
One question about Outdoorsman — is this the same as "Natural History" as described in the "Modern Abilities" Word doc you provided? I'm not clear on how much it's about wilderness travel/survival and how much it's about field botany/zoology.
