Need for a skill point term

[Skarg]

Originally Posted by JLV

In fact, to be totally honest, I think Steve should get rid of the term "IQ Points" as well -- simply state that when creating a new character, the character receives 500 x IQ XP and may spend on Talents/Spells as they like prior to the start of the game. The rules specify the cost of spells for non-magic users, and the cost of skills for magic users, so there's no difficulty there. Then none of this confusion would even crop up.

TFT players frequently complain about arithmetic though - I think telling them to multiply IQ by 500 and then spend 500 per talent point, etc., seems liable to confuse people, while I don't think the lack of a consistent term for talent points is particularly confusing people.

Also, I think 500 XP per talent point is a crazy amount except for its intended purpose of pushing the abilities of very experienced characters. Saying they start with 0 XP, and can increase an attribute for 100 XP, but they start with 4000 to 8000 XP in talents, to me just shines a brighter light on how the game needs a non-XP way to learn talents.