XP Cost for Talents/Spells

[Steve Plambeck]

Originally Posted by hcobb

A: IQ should contribute to memory points at start and on advancement.

A1: Increasing IQ adds memory points, but you can spend flat 500 XPs per memory point if you like.

B: IQ shouldn't have anything to do with memory points at start or on advancement.

C: The current system.

Which do you choose?

A. for sure, given only those choices. It's simple, fair, elegant, and proven to work well over many decades.

That said, I would still prefer a variant on just that, one which would allow all PCs to have a bit more by way of talents. Like spells, there are way more talents to choose from than ever get seen in play.

Originally Posted by TippetsTX

TBH, restoring the 'classic' progression scheme is a great solution to the LE problem. It is an elegant, well-balanced and time-tested design. If you go that route, however, I would not recommend attempting to accommodate the LE feature of purchasing talents/spells directly with XP. Stick to the original IQ-increase dependency. It's much cleaner.

Exactly -- no need to muddy the waters.

Honestly, if all we all want is to see everyone having room for a few more talents, we don't need to get all complicated to do it. Go back to the classic scheme just as you say, but with one caveat: instead of memory points is equal to IQ, go with memory points is equal to IQ+x, where x = 2 or 3 or even 5, just so long as it's some consistent fixed number. Problem solved.