Talk:Feat: Wild Talent

This feat no longer exists as written.

Wow, interesting.

I've never really played with psionics in D&D. -Slitherrr 21:32, 28 November 2009 (EST)

I have, some. There are two.. er.. three, I guess, in the IRL game I've been playing in. They tend to be overpowered, or maybe it's just that the twinks gravitate to the class. I don't mind them, but they're generally more complicated than they are worth, though some psionic feats are pretty nice. They're a very rare part of my world, and I like it that way. I really liked the wild talent idea from 2nd ed, but there's no good one in third despite the perfect vehicle for it in feats. Should probably be a lvl 0 power, but fuck it. Though, I will put a balance prereq on it now that I mention it. -gm

As I understood it from dev discussion around 4e, the real issue with psionics was that they tried to balance the mechanical power-level with role-play tradeoffs. In 2 and 3, the whole deal with psionicists were that they were persecuted, and so if you wanted to play one, you had to contend with a bias. Its like playing a defiler in dark sun--you are strictly more powerful than another class, and the only penalty is what npcs think of you. So, if the DM didn't have those biases in their world, the psionic classes were just strictly overpowered. --Msallen

Where would one get a psychic surgery? Gnomes? --Msallen

Best bet, yeah. I suppose there is some skill boosting psychic cantrip you've found? -gm

 :P Always good to increase the the bat-man utility belt for germain. There is also one that gives +20 on sense motive, but I don't know if you can qualify with just a wild talent. --Msallen

Actually just did a quick review, and it doesn't seem very worthwhile --Msallen

I guess some of the powers are cool--empathy, conceal thoughts, and come to mind would work. --Msallen

Hakan or Gildenhome? Or are psychics pretty evenly spread over the two? -Slitherrr

Adjustment?

If I recall, this was going to change to mimic another variant of the Wild Talent feat. Detarame, do you want to update or describe the change here so we can factor it in? -Mattie

feel free to just import it - I think it was the... something talent from the XPH? -gm

Is this it? Hidden Talent? You mentioned something about it maybe being based on the psionic classes base stat if they have any psionic classes. Did you want to have that included, too? -Mattie

Yes, and yes. I think that, in fact, it is supposed to work that way anyway but is poorly worded. -gm