Familiarity with Talents

[David Bofinger]

Originally Posted by JohnPaulB

• You can acquire ½ your IQ in Familiar Talents.

In TFT the choice of talents is a tradeoff: e.g. you can have Courtly Graces or Tactics but not both, and the player gets to choose which. The alternative philosophy is for the game designer to decide which of these you will have, which is largely how a class-based system like D&D works. I greatly prefer the TFT philosophy to the D&D one.

I therefore think it's unfortunate that you've specified the number of familiar talents the PC gets, rather than making it a tradeoff against regular talents.