Re: (TFT) Should talents be linked to attributes?

["John J Hyland" <johnnyboytmm@juno.com>]

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I'd rather see a system that brings in some other factor, such as study time, 
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Lots more complex than the suggestion, of course.

PvK
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Is it just me, or did you just describe a slightly modified (more complex even) version of GURPS 3ed skill advancement?

I think the idea of ability groupings of talents is interesting, but personally am OK with the way the current system works.  The party I GM has a couiple of High ST heros to do the Combat Grunt work, a literate HI IQ hero with tactics, courtly graces and language skills, who acts as their ambasador and plans their strategies, and a hi dex archer.  Plus a wizard.  I like that you can get such different results and still have useful, fun, characters.  And the party as a whole is a buzzsaw of destruction in combat, with a nice mix of social skills too.

For tracking EXP by skill, I am reminded of SPIs Universe RPG, where I recall the character sheet had just about every skill on it, and you potentially got experience each time you attempted to to use the skill,(depending on the roll I think) tracking each one seperately.  

John



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