Talents are special abilities or gifts that are only acquired once and then may be used afterwards without requiring further training.

During character creation, players are allowed to acquire any of the available Talents for their characters. As characters gain levels, they may also acquire Talents. However, Talent acquisition during level gains is more restrictive. Only those Talents that are marked as being Trainable may be acquired as the character goes up in levels.

If a Talent is not a racial ability for a given character, it is expected that the player works an explanation of how the character acquired this special ability into his character’s background story. The player should also think about how such Talents, or how their character acquired them might be turned into Plot Elements (see p. 92) that could possibly earn them additional experience points.

When acquiring Talents, the player should be cautioned that every Character Point spent on Talents means less CPs available for purchasing Skills, Spells and Combat Moves. It is also important to point out that unless the description of a Talent specifically states otherwise, no Talent may be gained more than once. Thus is a character has Nightvision from his race, and Combat Training I from his class, he would not be allowed to spend CP to acquire those Talents because he already has them.

In Game Acquisition

As mentioned previously, some Talents are marked as Trainable. These are Talents that we feel that a player should be allowed to acquire as he gains levels.

It is strongly recommended that players not be allowed to acquire more than one Talent each time that he goes up a level.