Clarification: Talent Skill Choice

[ericbsmith]

Originally Posted by malloyd

I'm not even convinced "all weapons" isn't as believable an aptitude as many of the other Talents.

Originally Posted by Kelly Pedersen

I wouldn't even price it that high, personally. I think it's balanced fine as a 15-point Talent. I could see something like that being the gift of a war god to their clerics in a fantasy setting, for instance.

Certainly, 15 points for "all weapons, plus a couple connected mental skills" is relatively balanced against DX+1 [20], Basic Speed -0.25 [-5] for the same cost.

I think what gets unbalanced, and why there's the recommendation against having a general "weapons" talent, is because at 5 points a talent with 5-6 weapon skills is kind of unbalanced, and at 10 points for 7-12 it's kind of questionable.