09-29-2018, 12:23 PM | #1 |
Join Date: Dec 2017
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IQ rise and talents
I just realized that the new treatment of spells and talents is inconsistent with the way my group has generally handled gaining them when your IQ goes up. Perhaps it wasn't correct, but we always let people just pick new spells and talents whenever their IQ went up by experience, 'filling up' their new capacity. But this is clearly not specified in the new rules, and I would say is inconsistent with their intent. That is, you clearly have to buy your new spells and talents with EXP even if you have raised IQ to exceed the number of points of them you've already got. Agreed?
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09-29-2018, 12:41 PM | #2 |
Join Date: Sep 2018
Location: North Texas
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Re: IQ rise and talents
Our GM back in the day made us use the 'training' rules. We had to pre-select the next 3 talents that we planned to gain when we earned enough XP to raise IQ sufficiently.
Was that rule eliminated in the revision? |
09-29-2018, 02:38 PM | #3 |
Join Date: May 2015
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Re: IQ rise and talents
I didn't notice that, but I'll read for that again later.
What I did notice is the missing sections on what it actually takes to learn a spell in terms of needing a book or teacher who knows the spell, and time, and likely a fee or apprenticeship relationship. Those seem like big steps backwards to me, especially not mentioning the need to learn a spell from some source rather than just getting it from their imagination. |
09-29-2018, 02:45 PM | #5 |
Join Date: May 2015
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09-29-2018, 03:00 PM | #6 | |
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: behind you
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Re: IQ rise and talents
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During character creation, your starting IQ limits how many talents/spells you know starting off...by using the old "IQ slots". This new system was presented by Steve back in mid June. It may have been proposed as far back as April :) but I wouldn't know :) http://forums.sjgames.com/showpost.p...8&postcount=13 Last edited by platimus; 09-29-2018 at 03:59 PM. |
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09-29-2018, 03:07 PM | #8 |
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: behind you
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09-29-2018, 03:11 PM | #9 |
Join Date: May 2015
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Re: IQ rise and talents
My impression is you can, but there are no rules for how to do that, since all the rules about learning things and how long it takes and needing a teacher or book are missing.
I think the XP for talents is just to exceed your IQ in talent/spell points. |
09-29-2018, 03:18 PM | #10 | |
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: behind you
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Re: IQ rise and talents
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"you can, but there are no rules for how to do that". There are no rules for it because IQ points are moot after character creation. See ITL p. 45 Learning New Spells and Talents Last edited by platimus; 09-29-2018 at 03:23 PM. |
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