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Old 05-26-2018, 10:38 AM   #6
Kelly Pedersen
 
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Default Re: Clarification: Talent Skill Choice

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Originally Posted by ericbsmith View Post
I know there's a general prohibition on including weapon skills; but there's also a couple official talents that break that prohibition.
I just wanted to point out, there's actually no prohibition on including weapon skills (or combat skills in general) in Talents. The only thing the Basic Set mentions about that is that you shouldn't be able to take "Weapon Talent", i.e. a Talent that covers all weapons, but that's in the context of explaining that Talents should represent believable aptitudes. There's really no balance concerns with adding combat skills to Talents in general. Power-Ups: Talents certainly doesn't mention anything like that, and includes several Talents with combat skills, and doesn't make any kind of note about them being exceptions or anything, either.

This is a persistent myth about Talents, and I think we should try to stop repeating it.
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