D&D 3E/3.5 Talent Trees in 3.5

[Felizginato12]

Hello, long time lurker, first time poster...

I was wondering if anyone has developed or come across any sort of talent tree system for the classes of 3.5? Along the lines of, well, Blizzard games (Diablo, WoW, ya know). I thought it would be an interesting new way to allow my group to customize their characters into different roles.

One way in which I envisioned it, is that instead of choosing feats you gain these feats through your classes' tree. I don't know, details are a little sketchy, but any feeback on this question would be great.

 

[InkwellIdeas]

I remember a project along these lines about a year ago. Someone (a third party publisher) was creating a 3.75 ish resource book with a lot of participation from posters here. It borrowed a bunch of ideas from the latest Star Wars RPG and some speculation of what was coming in 4E. One of those things was talent trees. Unfortunately I can't quite remember the name of the project, but maybe my post will jog someone else's memory.

You could also look at what was done for the Star Wars RPG released 1.5-2 years ago and port that.

 

[Felizginato12]

Thanks for the info. I'll try and check that out.

I would attempt to do it myself, but I hardly trust myself when it comes to balancing home brew game rules, so I wouldn't wanna mess it up too bad and have to rework the entire thing.

 

[El Mahdi]

There's also Sword and Sorcery Saga, by John "The Gneech" Robey.

It's not exactly 3.5 but I'm sure it could be adapted. It's essentially D&D SAGA Edition, complete with talent trees adapted to Sword & Sorcerery (or D&D) type games.

 

[Aus_Snow]

Sword & Sorcery Saga is great stuff. Check it out.

Also of note (and referred to above) is Fantasy Concepts, which has the disadvantage of not being free, but nonetheless is also worth a look.

 

[TheWyrd]

You might want to try Classically Modern. It broke down all of the SRD fantasy classes and the D20 Modern Advanced Classes so that they used Talent Trees.