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　Dungeon Fantasy also reserves a few Talents for heroes with particular backgrounds.
In most cases, these can be earned in play by individuals who initially lack them but who share traits common to some profession or race.
This suggests two further options:

　Prerequisites: Some Talents may have other traits – advantages, racial templates, etc. – as prerequisites. Even character templates for suitable vocations can fill this role, in a campaign where such are mandatory. Anybody who satisfies the qualifications listed for such a Talent may purchase it with earned points, regardless of whether he entered play with it.
Those who lack these requirements cannot buy the Talent, even during character creation.

　Enablers: A related approach is to designate certain advantages as opening the door to specific Talent purchases later on.
These aren’t prerequisites for possession of those Talents; the Talents in question are available to everyone at character creation.
Instead, they are prerequisites for buying the Talent in play.
The option to do so becomes a side benefit of some related advantage.

　Associating these kinds of traits with Talents is trivial for racial Talents. For the rest, it’s ultimately up to the GM, but here are some suggestions, intended chiefly as enablers but potentially useful as prerequisites if the GM wants to limit access to certain Talents:


　This list offers only a few exotic and supernatural advantages – mostly inexpensive ones – as examples of what might fit.
There are too many possibilities to enumerate them all!
If somebody has a superhuman ability that extends beyond any mundane advantage suggested for a Talent (e.g.,Mind Reading where Empathy would do, or Detect for the item or group of people to which the Talent pertains), then it makes sense to allow the Talent.

　The GM doesn’t have to make prerequisites and enablers fixed properties like point costs, skill lists, alternative abilities, etc.
If a Talent suggests a character concept, then he might permit it to anyone who has spent at least as many points on advantages related to that concept as a level of the Talent would cost.
He could even handle such assessments entirely on a role-playing basis; e.g., a priest played as being devout may get permission to purchase Devotion (pp. 9-10), or receive a level of that Talent instead of earned points.