Earthdawn House Rules

[Forest]

House Rule: Knacks
    Official Rules state that a character can only have 1 knack per discipline talent. There are several changes that are to be made to this rule set.

HR- 1:
    Character's don't have to be Disciplined in a talent to be able to gain a knack in it. Discipline talents function as normal. If you are not Disciplined in the talent LP costs are doubled. If you are using a Talent via Versatility and working for a knack the LP cost is doubled again.

Reasoning:
    A talent is as much a part of you as anything and making it your own is only right. For some, however, it is easier to do.


HR-2:
    Characters can have more than one knack on a talent, but never more then Half their rank in the talent.  They, however, can only have/use one knack 'active' at a time/per round.
    So a character with Sprint at rank 6, can have up to 3 knacks, but only gain the benefit of one at a time. 

Reasoning:
    AS you grow in power your ability to create more versatile uses of your talents grows with you. 
  
    

[Cyrus]

Question about knacks. I can see that for combat bassed talents. What about ones that are more time driven like thread weaving and forge blade. I haven't really found combat for those not saying they don't have them? Forge blade and forge armor I have found dozens for them that are non combat am I still only able to have a limited amount of them?

[Forest]

Same limitation still applies to the number of knacks.
there is no distinction between combat vs non-combat
in this sense.


So, The number of knacks possible under this means you max out at 8, half rank(max 15) round up.

This is already a far flung edge from the original rule of:

1 Knack, for a discipline talent only.