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Originally Posted by evileeyore
Why do people refer to things that divert Players from just bumping up Attributes as a "point crock"? It ain't a point crock, it's a strategy.
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A point crock is a strategy. It's a point crock because you are buying skill levels for [1] instead of [4].
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I stopped caring about "thematically related" in Talents a long time ago.
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Which choice serves to eviscerate the concept of a talent and to enable the resulting point crock.
But 'thematically related' wasn't the original concept either. The original idea was for an underlying facility that would be of benefit in a whatever skills it would logically assist. Like being good at social skills because you have 'a way with people'. I agree that several published Talents seem to break from this concept and lump together skills for which there is no logic for an underlying facility crossing over between them (making such Talents point crocks too, IMO).