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This is why I think that, for the most part, skills shouldn't scale up with level. You're a level 9 fighter, not a level 9 mountaineer, so why the +4? I would maybe allow PCs to train once for each tier. So you could have a heroic training, a paragon training and an epic training (maybe +5...

Skill challenges are just a structure to guide the players's skill rolls. If you're dead against skill challenges while roleplaying, by that same token you'd be deasdset against skills, period. Are you getting rid of them also? And Storminator mentionned using skill challenges to sim dungeon...

Just a detail for your "Take #4 - I Wound Myself!": I'd make the payment be healing surges instead of HPs. It is more consistent with how damage is dealt with outside of combat and is more dramatic, from a story-perspective. Other than that, I love your ideas, especially your premises. I'd...

While it is true that there are religions on Athas, even without gods, you can question the utility of devoting a skill to it. Remember, this is not 3 ed: there are fewer skills, each one covering a wide range of topics. Furthermore, players have few ressources to devote to skills. Chances...

Before the book came out, I thought the designers would have found another use for the Religion skill; I myself thought that it could be applied to knowledge of the Sorcerer-kings and the templars. Now that I've read the book, I notice that (unless I'm mistaken) the only mention of the Religion...

The issue of “Race allowance” has a couple of aspects: 1) The composition of your playing group: Is this a group of your close friends or a group that comes together only for your game ? Or something in between ? I find that this question is very important in how I deal with my players. DMing...