Sabbatical Talent

Ummm. . . either I’m confused or someone is misreading this.

Sabbatical offers you one of four options:

1) +1 to your Passive Logic number of skills (NOT +3 a single skill!)
2) +1 to a avoidance
3) +1 to discipline
4) +1 to fortitude

As such, the difference is not all that much. Sure, you boost two-to-four skills which does make you better at some things (I am thinking about picking it up when I have a free talent to spend), but a single skill point anywhere after Tier I becomes significantly less important. After all, when everyone has a +3 bonus to something in Tier I, increasing your bonus by 33% is HUGE, but at Tier V when I expect to have a +15 bonus to my primary skill, Sabbatical only will add 6.7% to my bonus. This is definitely useful, but game breaking it is not.

It doesn’t take a +3 to be useful. +1 to 3 different skills is very powerful. Like I said before, more powerful than prodigy, weapon mastery I, and stealthy I combined! So compared to other talents it is huge. Maybe not game breaking huge, but definitely better than any of the skill bonus talents out there.

As for the value of a bonus. I haven’t done the numbers myself, but looking at probability calculators at http://www.anydice.com/ it appears that if you are near the center of the bellcurve of hitting your target value 50% of the time then a +1 bonus improves your chance of hitting by 8%, no matter what percentage it is of the number of skill points you have. It is important to stay near the average defense value of your opponents on your attack abilities, and every +1 helps!

I really don’t see what the uproar is. Everyone (who hasn’t taken another Training Talent) can take the Talent, so if it’s good, just take it and enjoy. If you don’t feel you want to take it, then don’t. It’s not a ridiculously overpowered Talent as people have pointed out repeatedly.

John