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Originally Posted by Eldritch_Lord  The only thing I'd change in your system is removing any limits on taking Perform ranks; 5th level is where D&D starts diverging from the real world, so having a maestro at level 5 actually makes perfect sense. |
Sure, if you play E6. If you're a maestro at L5, where do you go from there?
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Originally Posted by Hawken So, if you can do that for one or two skills, why not for all of them? |
You
could... I think the other skills lend themselves better to scalability, though. Speak Language is a fairly binary skill, and Perform is largely so - there's little benefit for having a huge score, unless you make new rules for it (as I have). Add to that, that bards are the only ones who really use it, and they MUST take ranks in it (which ties up some of their skill total), and it only makes sense to adapt the system.
I certainly wouldn't - it's far too much work.
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