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Old 09-18-2013, 06:08 AM   #17
malloyd
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Default Re: Attribute effect on learning

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Originally Posted by Peter Knutsen View Post
The whole "reduced learning time" of Talents is crap, since it doesn't interact with point cost.

It's also bad game design in general, to have character creation work in one way, but then after game start, character advancement works in a different way.
I don't care for it either, but I don't think this is a sensible reason. It's actually quite consistent, stuff costs the same number of character points before and after character creation. What Talent does is modify the rules for determining how long it takes to earn a character point through study for this particular skill. This is a perfectly reasonable thing for a game mechanic to vary (not everybody learns everything at the same speed), and something that varies even more drastically during character creation, unless your rules set enforces all characters with the same number of points start at exactly the same age.
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