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Old editions put a hard cap on your talent rank based on circle, but I think third edition did away with that. Actually, this was never the case, but the Fibonacci series in the LP cost table is pretty effective at (generally) keeping talent ranks in line with circle. This is part of the reason why...

One of the other effects of this change is that it will put more emphasis on circle progression. It used to be that players would hold off advancing to the next circle so they could game the cost of increasing talents. Old editions put a hard cap on your talent rank based on circle, but I think thi...

Preview #1 opens up another thought for me. The +2 bonus per success level could easily and simply be scaled to reflect the power level of the campaign being played. If you want a "more" powerful game, make it a +3 or +4 bonus per success; if you want a "less" powerful game, make...

Compressing the game down from 15 to 10 Circles works just fine, IMO. I ran my own ED campaign for many years doing exactly this. The primary reason for doing so was to run a campaign where player characters could get to higher Circles in a reasonable "real life" timeframe (several years o...

Just a quick suggestion. One of the things that always irked me with 3rd edition was how Durability was a choice talent. To me this should be a default talent that is or isn't discipline to all disciplines. It makes no sense to have players have to choose between it and another talent for 2nd circl...