08-23-2019, 12:58 AM | #11 | |
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Southeast NC
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Re: Custom talent balancing advice
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08-23-2019, 05:16 AM | #12 |
Join Date: Feb 2016
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Re: Custom talent balancing advice
Well, that is why you have rows of massed fire (muskets are not that useful for solo operations). The Spanish showed during the 16th century the utility of combining muskets with pikes and swords. The tercio of 1,000 musketeers supported by 1,000 pikemen and 1,000 swordsmen were nigh invulnerable at their time. Of course, smallswords were rarely used on the battlefield because of their minimal damage and light weight (rapiers and sabres are battlefield weapons, smallswords are courtly weapons).
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08-23-2019, 12:32 PM | #13 |
Join Date: Sep 2018
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Re: Custom talent balancing advice
I'm going to be not-helpful here. Don't custom balance talents. Nobody does a good job of this, it always mucks up game balance. Talents are already kind of wonky but they're meant to represent an aptitude by virtue of having unique abilities that make you good at related skills, like better color distinction makes you good at art, or having a better defined palate makes you good at cooking and alchemy, better math application or 3D perception makes engineering, mechanics and such easier. The theme here is skills that come from a common "talent" for something. The skills associated with that talent should be related to what makes a person good at them. Not just a collection of skills that look good together. Coming from a culture where everyone is taught how to use a rifle isn't a talent, it's just points in Rifle.
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08-23-2019, 06:20 PM | #14 |
Join Date: Jan 2017
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Re: Custom talent balancing advice
I kind of feel, thematically, that the Dwarves would be the ones that would first discover gunpowder. Their advantages would be gunpowder/explosives and fortifications. The Elves' advantages would be magic and a connection to nature. The humans' advantages would be adaptability and versatility. Like the Dwarves would be at home in the mountains, the Elves would be at home deep in a forest, and the humans would colonize pretty much everywhere.
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