> If I were given leave to change the rules, I'd remove "Talents" from
Common
> Magic and from the Concentration of Magic Rules. "Talents" would
work like
> normal abilities, not augment-only as Unconcentrated Common Magic
does. They
> would be raisable at 1HP/+1, not 2HP like Common Magic. Then I would
forbid
> a player from gaining a talent after Character Generation is over
(without a
> good excuse, at least). No learning that you can naturally Breathe
Fire or
> Fly two years into the game (unless you're playing kids and the hero
hits
> puberty...).
>
> That's what I would do if I ran the Zoo!
That's what I thought I'd do, too. Until I realized that there were a bunch of good talents that are available to be learned in the various homelands' common magic sections (including ILH1).
I think there need to be two seperate things. Common Magic Talents that you can learn and Innate Talents which are unaffected by concentration and can be used actively, but which may never be learned.
Or maybe they can be learned, but then they act as Common Magic Talents. That way, if you can breathe fire, maybe you can teach someone else to breathe fire, but they'll only get to use it as an augment and will lose it when they specialize.
Anyway, that's the way it works in my Glorantha. Talents that you're born with are special. Others ain't.
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