04-27-2013, 07:16 AM | #171 | ||
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Re: Are Talents overpowered?
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04-27-2013, 09:15 AM | #172 |
Join Date: Apr 2006
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Re: Are Talents overpowered?
You know what, now that I've run the numbers myself, I take back what I said about Business Acumen. It is overpriced; you're always getting higher skill levels by buying high levels of Merchant and defaulting to it, and conveniently this results in you having what's typically the best skill of the group at expert-to-master level.
The proper value for Business Acumen is probably about 5/level, which makes it roughly competitive with high Merchant skill, and even then it's more of a characterization tool if you want to make a character who's a bit of a financial wiz but not necessarily a world-class trader and haggler. |
04-27-2013, 12:08 PM | #173 | |||
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Location: OK
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Area Knowledge (Outdoor areas only) Professional Skill (Forester) Prospecting Weather Sense It's better, but I still don't want to take it all that much. The issue I'm seeing is that even if you're paying 1/level for each skill... that's still 1/level for some of those skills. If you buy Outdoorsman 4 and put a single point into Mimicry or Fishing, then you're spending five points on Mimicry or Fishing. Or, if you count Mimicry and Fishing as being only a miniscule portion of those points, then you're paying even more than that for the two best ones, Survival and Naturalist. Quote:
Look at it this way: if there was a skill that include nothing more than a melee skill and a ranged combat skill, it would still be worthing taking for 5/level, since what it does is give you a ranged skill for only 1/level over the 4/level you'd pay anyway for the melee skill, which is a great deal. Also, Pickaxe Penchant is incredibly good in DF because you can buy it with your advantage points. You usually can't increase your skill levels with your advantage points. That's why swashbucklers and knights don't just start with skill 35. But if you're a dwarf, you can do that by buying Pickaxe Penchant, which is why just about every knight I see is a dwarf. Quote:
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