Talents per the WG

[RPMiller]

Hi Dan,
I've got a few items for update these are all Talents

Ambidexterity - should read ((value) Off Hand penalty)
Combat Luck - I'm going to have to ask Steve about this one. The WG is to just list it, but CKC usually shows the values in parens like armor with no colon after luck.
Combat Sense - shouldn't have any modifiers/adders, but you know the rules better than me, and this may also be standarization that HD uses.
Danger Sense - No preceeding title, i.e. Area:, everything in the parens should be lowercase.
Environmental Movement - should be Environmental Movement (no penalties (on/in environ.)), no colon after movement
Resistance - the points should be written as ((#) points), no colon after resistance
Simulate Death - I like the way you have it, but... if no EGO bonus than just the name, if EGO bonus written as (+(#) to roll)
Speed Reading - multiple should be in parentheses, no colon after reading
Universal Translator - if limited, limitation comes after roll separated with semi-colon


That should keep you busy for a while ;) . I know I keep thanking you, but I mean it. Thank you.
*EDIT* Discovered you can't use > or < switched to parens.

[Simon]

I'll go through these and get them into the next update.

Thanks again!

[RPMiller]

I got word back from Steve regarding Combat Luck. Do as I indicated above. Thanks Dan!

[Simon]

Ambidexterity: the display is according to the WG. The wording is different from the examples, but the same info is included and the WG do not specify a required wording, simply "....followed by the character's final Off Hnad penalty in parentheses". "Reduce Off Hand Penalty to -1" is a match for the way FREd shows it.

Combat Sense should most certainly have Adders. It is a Sense...it gets all the Adders that other Senses/Enhanced Senses get.

Danger Sense: If the user does not want the "Area:" it's going to be up to them to delete it. It's part of the Adder currently...simply clear out the text when selecting that Adder and you will get only the option. As for the case, I don't see anything in the WG which specifies that the conditions are supposed to be lower case and the case that is used in HD matches that used in FREd.

[RPMiller]

First, these comments were influenced by CKC. I was comparing the character sheets in there with the WG.

Second, I asked Steve about a couple of them with respect to the WG, and asked if it was a case of "Do as I say, not as I do."

Finally, Steve's reply was that the CKC shows the WG standards (for the most part), and to go with the way they appear in CKC.
All that being said, that is where my comments came from. If we are shooting for WG compatibility, then these should be changed.

In reply to the above,
Ambidexterity: The text I mentioned is the standard verbage throughout all the characters. Also, we both know that rarely does the WG match FREd... unfortunately.

Combat Sense: I can't argue with you comment, however, I could not find a single example of anything other than just the sense. Of course, that doesn't mean anything either. I also could not find anything in FREd that hinted to the adders and such being included, but again. You know more than I regarding the way the powers should work.

Danger Sense: No problems with editing the adders. As for the case, Steve is very specific. I would point out Language as an example where the fluency "has" to be lower case per the WG.

In conclusion, if it were up to me, which it isn't, I would say that what you have done is perfect and there is no need to change, but if we want the output to match the WG, which I thought we were attempting to do, than the changes above should be implemented.

Dan, you have been extremely helpful and willing to change HD in the past, but if you want/need to stop then I'll stop as well. I hope you still understand I am not making any demands or anything. I'm just trying to be helpful with making HD even better for everyone, even us minorities that want to use it for "official" purposes, and I had thought these were just minor formatting changes. I would never expect you to "break" it for the sake of a formatting change. Anyway, thanks for your help.