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Offline rdanhenry

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Random Talents for RMU
« on: August 21, 2023, 12:06:22 AM »
Since I know that if I choose Talents myself, I'll tend to gravitate toward the few I think are "the best" and avoid the many that I'm not at all sure are worth the points, I created randomized tables to select Talents to ensure that I will use them in pre-gens and NPCs to get a feel for how they actually work out and can adjust pricing when running RMU to match how I perceive their actual worth.

Then, I thought that others might find such tables useful, even if not for the same reasons, so here's what I came up with:

Firstly, roll for the type of talent, based on the profession of the character (magical talents are pretty much useless to any Arms character, while a pure caster (here including hybrids) is unlikely to get much from a combat talent without leaning into the combat training harder than is normal.

Arms Character:
01-30 Combat
31-40 Discipline
41-50 Physical
51-75 Senses
76-100 Other

Pure Caster
01 Combat
02-06 Discipline
07-56 Magical
57-65 Physical
66-80 Senses
81-100 Other

Semi-
01-25 Combat
26-33 Discipline
34-58 Magical
59-66 Physical
67-83 Senses
84-100 Other
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Re: Random Talents for RMU
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2023, 12:16:09 AM »
Combat Talent
01-12 Deadeye
13-23 Fast Attack
24-34 Foiler
35-45 Opportunistic Strike
46-56 Pressing the Advantage
57-67 Quickdraw/Quickload
68-78 Reposte
79-89 Sense Weakness
90-100 Sharpshooter

Discipline Talent
01-50 Frenzy
51-100 Light Sleeper

Magical Talent
01-11 Eloquence
12-22 Extended Reach
23-33 Graceful Recovery
34-44 Power Recycling
45-56 Quick-Caster
57-67 Scope Skills
68-78 Spatial Skills
79-89 Subconscious Discipline
90-100 Temporal Skills

Physical Talent
01-34 Ambidextrous
35-67 Beast of Burden
68-100 Slow Bleeder

Senses Talent
01-10 Acute Hearing
11-20 Acute Smell
21-28 Acute Taste
29-36 Acute Touch
37-46 Acute Vision
47-55 Animal Empathy
56-64 Destiny Sense
65-73 Direction Sense
74-82 Empathy
83-91 Extra Sense
92-100 Visions

Other Talent
01-12 Golden Throat
13-24 Iron Will
25-36 Look of Eagles
37-48 Multilingual
49-60 Neutral Odor
61-72 Perfect Pitch
73-100 Prodigy

Of course, these tables hardly make the process automatic. The talent rolled may be unaffordable for the character in question, for example. Many talents will require further decisions, like how many tiers to take, or which spell list to apply it to. I don't think it makes sense to try to make it fully randomized in terms of those details. That said, this is still a first draft, and I'm sure it could do with some tweaking.
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Re: Random Talents for RMU
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2023, 09:46:58 AM »
Thanks for posting! I did find it useful.

Looks like the sort of thing that might be easily incorporated into Jonathan's IPP NPC generator.
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Re: Random Talents for RMU
« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2023, 02:38:45 PM »
Pretty easy, sure. Would just need a decision about how likely a given character is to have any talents. Probably related to their number of racial bonus DP.
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