Alternate XP progression schedule

[Steve Plambeck]

Originally Posted by David Bofinger

This is a fairly common way to handle this, and IMO works well, except that I think it's more common these days to have a 3:1 ratio, rather than a 2:1 ratio.

Indeed, although in most of the suggestions in the past few years I don't recall many including the counting of purchased talent points into the attribute total.

I suspect I don't even recall my old group using this because it may have been a later addition to our house rules, so it didn't have time to play out before the group ended. And all five or six of us had characters nearing 40 attribute point, which meant their further advancement was stalled under the ITL progression rules -- a thousand XP can take a couple years of play. We probably should have just changed that. This forgotten adoption of a "Talent Point" rule was probably a last-ditch effort to get PC advancement moving again.

I've thought about it tons since Legacy arrived and although this old 1980's solution ain't bad, it isn't really sufficient, especially if sticking to the rest of the Legacy progression rules. Many talents, like many spells, are underutilized.