XP Cost for Talents/Spells

[Bill_in_IN]

Originally Posted by Steve Plambeck

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.

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.

With respect to the bolded text, is this at character start? Is it a fixed addition that is present throughout character development?