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<blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 7229684" data-attributes="member: 71699"><p>Ah, I see what you mean and now understand your emphasis on class, race and background. That all escaped me before because I <em>thought</em> you intended that a player could pick up a new skill and become an instant expert in that skill. So I make my first pick (of three) Thieves' Tools, and then my second pick (of three) Expertise in Thieves' Tools, and my third pick (of three) whatever.</p><p></p><p></p><p>With rolled stats, who knows? Our cleric rolled horribly and our fighter is great at everything! However, I think there is another problem. When balancing and constraining, we always have to interpret the player as an intelligent and foresightful actor, capable of planning. A player who sees a pathway to Expertise can prioritise their background choices differently. They can focus on something that is going to benefit along the Skilled pathway. Grabbing Spy and then Skilled, a Variant-Human Fighter who is planning on the finesse duelist route (so high Dexterity), has about outmoded the Rogue, at level 1.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="clearstream, post: 7229684, member: 71699"] Ah, I see what you mean and now understand your emphasis on class, race and background. That all escaped me before because I [I]thought[/I] you intended that a player could pick up a new skill and become an instant expert in that skill. So I make my first pick (of three) Thieves' Tools, and then my second pick (of three) Expertise in Thieves' Tools, and my third pick (of three) whatever. With rolled stats, who knows? Our cleric rolled horribly and our fighter is great at everything! However, I think there is another problem. When balancing and constraining, we always have to interpret the player as an intelligent and foresightful actor, capable of planning. A player who sees a pathway to Expertise can prioritise their background choices differently. They can focus on something that is going to benefit along the Skilled pathway. Grabbing Spy and then Skilled, a Variant-Human Fighter who is planning on the finesse duelist route (so high Dexterity), has about outmoded the Rogue, at level 1. [/QUOTE]
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