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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Karanov" data-source="post: 1549805" data-attributes="member: 6424">Having read up on the Talent Trees from D20 Modern (in the SRD) I can confidently say that the only thing in common between the Background Feats and the Talent Trees is that you sometimes need to take one Talent/Feat before you can take the 'next' one (not unlike Feats like Power Attack, Cleave and Greater Cleave). Other than that Background Feats are not class based, although some classes do gain bonus Background Feats. And you can take a Background Feat as a normal Feat. In effect they are completely indistinguishable from other Feats other that they can sometimes be taken as bonus Feats by some classes.The Knacks on the other hand function more like Talent Trees. That is a character with the Psychic or Superhuman Template gains a Knack when it receives the Template and one additional Knack every 3 levels there after. Difference being that you need to take additional 'racial levels' in the appropriate Template to be able to take a higher level Knack (there are 3 levels of Knacks in total). Also, you can pospone taking a Knack till your character gains access to higher level Knacks... at which time you can take a Knack of that level. Knacks function more like a power-point based spells than anything else, though.</blockquote>