Earthdawn: learning new talents

[Swampy]

A quick question as I couldn't find it anywhere in the players guide. Is there any way to learn new talents from an old circle?

If I make a beastmaster and want both tracking and wilderness survival, both talent options at first rank, as talents can I pick one up when I get to the second circle or will I have to have one as a skill only.

 

[Anunnaki]

Hiya,

A quick question as I couldn't find it anywhere in the players guide. Is there any way to learn new talents from an old circle?

If I make a beastmaster and want both tracking and wilderness survival, both talent options at first rank, as talents can I pick one up when I get to the second circle or will I have to have one as a skill only.

See Talents and Abilities (Earthdawn Player's Guide, p.40). Under Talent Options, look for the sentence that begins "While those Talent Options can be chosen from talent pools of lower status..."

Basically, you can choose Talent Options from your current and previous (lower) talent pools, but not the higher ones. The Legend Point cost is calculated at the level which you learn the talent.

So, in your example, if the Beastmaster learned Wilderness Survival (an Initiate Talent Option) at one of his Novice Circles (say, Third Circle), he would pay the same LP cost for advancing Wilderness Survival as for other other Novice talents.

Hope this helps!

Take kaer, James

 

[Swampy]

Thanks for the quick reply.

 

[Anunnaki]

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