Talents

Talents are character-specific backgrounds, occupations, jobs, or otherwise that give a character the ability to interact with the world.

§ Jargon

Talent : A category for skill that can have talent tokens placed into to give it a rank.

Rank : This represents the amount of talent tokens placed into a particular talent.

§ Rules

§ Character Creation

When first creating a character, you gain 3 background talent tokens and 2 talent tokens. The background tokens must be used to define separate talents. The non-background tokens can be used to define additional talents or to increase the rank of any other talent.

§ Advancement

At every rank, excluding the first, you gain 1 talent token. You can also choose to spend your normally acquired free tokens as a talent token.

§ Mechanics

When a particular task is required, such as lockpicking a door, one or more talents can be used to roll against the difficulty of the task. For example, if a character has 2 ranks in the “burgler” talent and the lock’s difficulty is 2, then 2 tokens can be flipped to pick the lock. If the character has 2 as a result, then the lock is picked. If the character has less than 2, then the action fails.

It is up to the HM what talents may or may not apply to a task.