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Old 12-27-2016, 08:27 AM   #5
Fred Brackin
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Default Re: Max pluses with talents

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Originally Posted by RyanW View Post
The skill bonus adds up just fine. The learning speed and reaction bonuses cap at 4. From Power Ups 3.

Though, a GM can, and probably should, put his foot down if a player takes a bunch of talents that heavily overlap just for the purpose of gaming the rules. For example, Born Sailor, Mariner, and Seafarer are, effectively, three versions of the same basic talent. I wouldn't allow a character to have them all.
It's probably mostly a matter of what the Talent represents. The overlapping Skills from Mathematical Aptitude and Business Acumen explicitly stack. This is noted in the Skill's rules text. It appears to me to be a relatively rare case of "I am good with these Skills because I am good with Math" v. the more usual "I have a natural gift for this activity and this gives bonuses to these Skills".

The "activity-based bundle of Skills" Talents are rather more common than other sorts and they generally shouldn't stack with each other according to how I understand the theory.
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