Thread: d20 Modern Does anyone like class skills?
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Old 27th August 2008, 02:28 AM   #16 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Armadillo
I've always treated the feats with the +2 skill benefit as also making those skills class skills.
I've not heard of this before, but I know a lot of people that do it with the Skill Focus feat - the PC gains the bonus and the skill is a permanent class skill for the PC.

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Originally Posted by Armadillo
I like the idea of giving characters a +2 benefit in all class skills and getting rid of cross-class skills. This would also lessen the difficulty of having to pick certain core classes for the skills required to qualify for an advanced class.
You know, you could get the same effect by removing the cost but keeping the cap, right?

So, at all levels all skill ranks only cost 1 skill point. However, cross-class skills are capped at half level (or half level +1), while class skills are limited to level +2 (or +3, or even just level - as Pathfinder does it).

So putting a few points in a skill is easy no matter the class, but really pushing up the skill ranks in a skill requires it be a class skill.

This is yet another possible way of deal with cross-class skills.
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