For a while now I’ve really been into an old Star Wars system called Saga Edition that I appreciate greatly for its ability to really customize a character. A major part of that customization comes from its use of a talent system instead of most other systems that automatically assign class features, and I’m curious if there are any other ttrpgs that use talents.
I’m pretty sure the Dragon Age ttrpg also uses them, but what other systems do, and are any of them still actively being produced?
13th age does this. Choose 3 or 4 out of a total pool of X per class. Helps it so no 2 chars of the same class are samey, gives players agency in builds… I love it and it seems a lot mor exciting than a subclass based system like in dnd.
I also feel the talents in 13a are mooostly balanced with each other, but I haven’t played it long enough to guarantee this