Talent Trees

[Armadillo]

Also in the talent trees from SW Saga and d20 M, there are several described as Talent Y works like Talent X. So, yes, a Druid and Ranger could have similar talent trees. The Ranger could also have talent trees with similarities to talent trees for the Fighter and Rogue.

 

[Stalker0]

Taking Star Wars as an example, I don't think there's going to be more than three or four talent trees per class, with prestige classes and multiclassing being used to give access to more options.

WOTC has already released a few new talent trees on their sites, there will definately be more in supplemental books.

And I'm happy for that. The advantage of talent trees is they are a lot cleaner than Prcs when you want to introduce one new class feature or take on one archetype schtik. For example, maybe you want to be a bodyguard with guard other class features. You don't need a whole class for that, just a fighter talent tree.

 

[Insight]

One way in which talent trees are far superior to prestige classes is that with a talent tree, you are just replacing a class ability, not giving everything from base attack to saves to skill points. If you want to start being an assassin, you stick with rogue or fighter or whatever and pick up a few abilities from the assassin talent tree as opposed to losing your progression as a rogue or a fighter. This is especially important when you are talking about spellcasters.

 

[Wepwawet]

"OK Bill, ity's time to pick your cleric's talent trees. What would you like to use?"
"Well what are my options?"
"Well I have 46 different talent trees available to you between these 20 issues of Dragon, 10 WotC supplements and another 5 3rd party books"
"Hmm....maybe a Rogue instead"
"87 trees for him"
"Screw it, can we play Vampire/OD&D/Rolemaster/(insert favorite debatably lighter weight system here) instead of this?"

Still, it's a lot better than browsing through 8237 different feats. And you can create a better concept for your character, without needing to choose a defined prestige class or needing to choose speciffic feats to get that PrC

Let the talent trees come I like what I saw in d20 Modern (I don't know SWSE...)