Quote Originally Posted by digiman619 View Post
Dumb question, but to talents gained via drawbacks with the Brute, Boxing, Open Hand or Wrestling spheres count separately for improving unarmed damage? For example, if at first level I took the Defensive Pugilist drawback to get Tight Guard and I have two unarmed spheres/talents talents, does that qualify as having 4 talents and thus doing 1d6 damage w/unarmed strikes?
There is no rule which changes the effect of talents depending on the source of the talent, with only one exception: If you gain a talent only temporarily, it doesn't provide the instant retraining it otherwise does.