Proposal: Valley of Bone and Talenta Weapon Training

RedBeardJim · Nov 24, 2009

The feat "Talenta Weapon Training" from the Eberron Player's Guide provides proficiency with three superior weapons (the Talenta Boomerang, Talenta Sharrash and Talenta Tangat), along with a +2 feat bonus to damage rolls with those weapons. To qualify for this feat, a character must be a halfling with the Talenta Plains regional background, also from the EPG.

I propose that the L4W "Valley of Bone" regional origin serve as a substitute for the Talenta Plains background for the purposes of qualifying for this feat. The weapons help make up some of the gap between Small and Medium weapon-users, and the flavor of the two areas seems to be similar at first inspection.

CaBaNa · Nov 24, 2009

Like this idea, helps out with the shorties.

JoeNotCharles · Nov 24, 2009

I'd probably just drop the background requirement altogether. Seems quite similar to Dwarven Weapon Proficiency.

Kalidrev · Nov 24, 2009

I vote YES to allowing for the Talenta Weapon Training feat, however I would like to see it come WITHOUT having to be from a specific region. Forcing a specific background or having to be from a specific area kills fluff ideas for anyone who wants to play as a melee gnome/halfling from an area other than the Valley of Bone and still be effective. So again, YES to the feat; NO to the prerequisite.

TwoHeadsBarking · Nov 24, 2009

Should we consider coming up with a general policy for all setting specific material like this, or is handling it case-by-case better?

Kalidrev · Nov 24, 2009

I feel more comfortable handling these on a case-by-case basis. New settings are coming out soon if I am not mistaken (within the next year I believe) and I don't want to auto-allow or auto-disallow without the ability to see the items/feats first.

RedBeardJim · Nov 25, 2009

Kalidrev said:
I vote YES to allowing for the Talenta Weapon Training feat, however I would like to see it come WITHOUT having to be from a specific region. Forcing a specific background or having to be from a specific area kills fluff ideas for anyone who wants to play as a melee gnome/halfling from an area other than the Valley of Bone and still be effective. So again, YES to the feat; NO to the prerequisite.

Well, it wouldn't help gnomes unless you also took out the racial prereq.

ryryguy · Nov 25, 2009

It might make sense to say that the "Talenta" weapons originate in the Valley of Bone, though, to help fit them into the setting. We could do that without restricting the feat to a Valley of Bone background.

renau1g · Nov 25, 2009

I'm in agreeance with allowing the feat, but I'd like to keep the regional thing. It fits that setting, unless we're saying that the majority of halflings in this setting are feral and barbaric. Dwarven weapons are common for the race (or at least have been for D&D's run) whereas the halfling weapons are really only from one small part of one campaign world.

So YES to the feat WITH the regional requirement of the Valley of Bone. Otherwise it looses any of the flavour that I had initially thought it would add to the setting.

I guess it's also NO to the feat without that requirement.