RE: (TFT) Optional Rule to increase KP points

["Pasha and Rick Smith" <pnrsmith@istar.ca>]

Hi all,
	One thing that I did not like was in TFT a prerequisite
of a spell was learned for free. (If you know 3 hex fire you
get 1 hex fire at no memory cost.)
	(This was made explicit in the TFT Codex.)

	However, prerequisites of talents did not give you this
savings. (Argh! fighters get hosed again !!! )


	What I did is say that if a talent or spell gives you the
lower level for free memory then it is a prerequisite.  If you
must buy both separately than it is a corequisite.


	Some spells now have corequisites, and some talents now
have prequisites.  For example, Sword gives you Knife for free
so in my talent write ups Knife is listed as a prerequisite of
Sword.


	When I was fiddling with talents I did not generally make
coreq. into preq.  The reason is that a 1 hex Fire seems like a
perfect subset of 3 hex Fire, but (for example) UC5 should
require more effort than UC1 plus extra DX and IQ.

	(What I did was make some talents cost less memory.)


	Rick


-----Original Message-----
From: tft-owner@brainiac.com [mailto:tft-owner@brainiac.com]On Behalf Of
Neil Gilmore
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 12:09 PM
To: tft@brainiac.com
Subject: Re: (TFT) Optional Rule to increase KP points


> The Osmosis Rule
> This rule allows any 'advanced' talent to be learned with the *same* IQ
> points as the prerequisite. It still takes the same amount of time to
learn
> (3 mo for 1 IQ, 6 mo. for 2 and 9 months for 3 IQ) but if you meet the IQ
> requirements of the talent you can instantly 'forget' the prerequisite and
> gain those IQ points back.

I've always done this, and for spells, too. For example, as 3-hex Fire
subsumes Fire, you can learn the 3 hex version using the same IQ point as
the one hex version, assuming your IQ is high enough.

> Woodsman costs you only 1 IQ point, if you start with Naturalist and 'work
> your way up' to Woodsmans.

I don't have ITL here, but isn't Woodsman 1 point already, with a prereq. of
Naturalist?

Neil Gilmore
raito@raito.com
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