Talents have a Base Thresh of 25 and Base RR of 2d-1. These may be modified by
the Increased Thresh and Increased RR advantages. Any Talent who spends more than 20
pts on these advantages must also buy a 5 pt Unusual Background.
Using Talents
Talents are used as described for Knacks in GURPS Magic with the following
modifications. Use of a Talent does not cost fatigue. Instead, the amount of energy
required to use a Talent is added to the Tally. This may be decreased by adding Power to
the Talent. Talents may spend fatigue to reduce the addition to their Tally at the rate of
four fatigue per point of reduction. If a Talent is the subject of his own power, the power
works automatically. Otherwise, treat it as a spell cast with a skill of 15. Magic Resistance
and Susceptibility affects this just as any other spell.
Exceeding the Threshold
As may be expected, Talents are more likely to Exceed their Thresh than any other
magic-user. The inherentness of their abilities tends to make them less careful in using
their power. A Talent Exceeds the Thresh any time a use of his ability causes his Tally to
be larger than his Thresh, wether this is the initial use, or a maintaining of the effect. This
causes a Talent to have to roll on the Calamity Table. Talents also have to roll for
Calamity any time a maintaining of their power increases the Tally another 5 pts beyond
Thresh. Any use of a Talent after Tally has exceeded Thresh requires a roll for Calamity.
Sample Talents
This is a small list of some common Talents and their point costs. This does not
include any Speed or Power.
Create Fire 6 pts Light Jet 4 pts
Beast Soother 12 pts Fire-Ball 32 pts
Wallwalker 20 pts Compel Truth 12 pts
Minor Healing 24 pts Major Healing 60 pts !!
Invisibility 24 pts Infravision 2 pts
Levitation 16 pts Suggestion 20 pts
Power and Speed add 10 pts for one point, 20 pts for 2 and 40 pts for 3. Talents are not likely
to have higher levels of Power or Speed.
