Standard for memory points?

[hcobb]

What is the standard way of indicating on a character sheet that the figure has spent XPs to learn talents, languages and spells totaling to a higher combined cost than their starting IQ?

[larsdangly]

There seems to be no suggested way of doing this, just based on the official character sheets we've seen or the cards for advanced NPCs (the wizards and high talent heroes from the DoD sets). All I can suggest is putting a running tally of total talent points expended in the corner of whatever space you use to list talents.

[FireHorse]

How would you like to record that data?

It doesn't seem important enough to put on the small card you use during combat; it's more comparable the list of all items (and their weights), from the larger character sheet. So if you were redesigning that character sheet, where would you put that information?

[Shostak]

Jot it down in a character journal.

[TippetsTX]

I recall that we had a section on our old handwritten character sheets where we tracked the talents being studied. I'm keeping that concept with the new rules so when I get around to making a new character sheet, I will have a spot next to that info to track XP spent as well as earned.

[Skarg]

I think the "standard" way, as evidenced by every character I remember seeing published in or after Legacy, as well as those before it, is:

Simply list the talents and spells known.

There is no reason to do anything else in the rules-as-written, except to help people do the lookup and addition. On character sheets though often people use the format from the Talent list, i.e. writing the number of memory points in parens after the talent name: Literacy (1) Bow (2) etc.

Now, with house rules, there may well be reasons, but that doesn't apply to the published stuff. (A common way to write mIQ is with a slash, after base IQ: 11/13, but that's a little messy since mIQ isn't used for anything other than learning things.)