Just one question... Why is this talent missing the skill point in Arcanum Meditation to make it equivalent to the other two talents that basically replicate this one? aka Rudimentary Prayers and Spell casting?

~Tony

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Spontaneously Awakened, add the following
Special and change the benefit as shown in bold
Benefit: Arcane Spell Casting: (Psionic) is no
longer a limited Talent for you. Choose a single
Tier I spell from one of the following Traditions:
Control, Heritage, Kinetics, or Transmutation;
you now know how to cast this spell, even if you
possess no ranks in Arcanum (Meditation).

Special: If you gain this talent though a
background or path and already possess Arcane
Spell Casting: (Psionic) you gain Learn Spell
instead.

The lower barrier for entry?

cody, i don't think that's true can you back up that thought with something concrete?

Nope, I was musing. Of course, the fact that ANY Val can become Spontaneously Awakened, while all the paths granting access to the other Rudimentary Spell Casting Talents require a number of other prerequisites. Perhaps the +1 to Arcanum: Meditation was omitted to reflect this.

The prereq's for the other paths are not that difficult and in fact tend to offer more then some of the paths you would take to acquire Spontaneously Awakened.

You can pick up Spontaneously Awakened via a background however so that could be easier however you only get 1 background and you get 5 paths over the course of a character. So getting it via the one background limits the kind of character your playing so i don't know if i call it easier.

I just felt it was an over site.

Tony