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Plane · 10-23-2020, 03:32 PM

One possible downside to talent:

if you want to be a teacher to others with the "intensive" rate, you not only need effective skill (ie attribute+talent helps) higher than your student, you also need "points in skill" higher which attribute/talent doesn't help with AFAIK

So if you're relying a lot on talent to be good at something, it will limit your ability to teach others the skill and give them time-based CP to spend on it.

You're trading "I can teach" for "I learn better" in a way (since you can get points in the skills in 10%/level quicker incremenets)

If there are "Teachable Talents" then I don't know what rules to use for them.

10-23-2020, 03:32 PM	#88
Plane Join Date: Aug 2018	Re: Stop Spending Earned Character Points One possible downside to talent: if you want to be a teacher to others with the "intensive" rate, you not only need effective skill (ie attribute+talent helps) higher than your student, you also need "points in skill" higher which attribute/talent doesn't help with AFAIK So if you're relying a lot on talent to be good at something, it will limit your ability to teach others the skill and give them time-based CP to spend on it. You're trading "I can teach" for "I learn better" in a way (since you can get points in the skills in 10%/level quicker incremenets) If there are "Teachable Talents" then I don't know what rules to use for them.