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So first of all in response to the bolded part, yes you are entirely correct. This is caused by skills being *. If skills were less * there would be interesting options all around and no option would be clearly superior. My propose solution to fixing intimidation is to make it into a class...

Of course it doesn't say that, but someone is obviously interpreting it that way. This seems to indicate that there is some issue with the clarity of the rules because people are obviously reading them wrong or misunderstanding them. edit: I mean you must admit that you cannot counter that...

What I'm trying to get at is that the same amount of guidance might not be enough. For example a lot of people might have have preconceived ideas about how a particular skills should work and this influences their handling of the skill. Someone above mentioned the thing about intimidate being...

You assume that since they have the same amount of rules and descriptive text they are equally good. This is, obviously, not true. If the text is not the same text then the rules are not the same and as such they can be read and interpreted differently by different GMs.

It's a problem with the skill because the skill doesn't explain how it's actually supposed to work.

Having only seen the class name written down without knowing what the class was about I just assumed it was either related to ships, or some kind of artificer thing focused on jury-rigging stuff.

The argument essentially boils down to that there is no difference between an ability that enables you to do X, vs an ability that allows you to negotiate with the GM for the possible chance of being able to do X, because the GM can say no to both. Having the ability outright is a safer...

That's true in theory, but not in practice. Instead of using spells, I'll illustrate using the Echo Knight. The EK has an ability that lets them create a copy. They can move the copy. They can also swap position with the copy. All these abilities are actionable and entirely free from GM-fiat...

The problem with all these skills is that they have no concrete effects, Animal Handling probably needs more work in the book because it has lots of utility in reality, but needs GM guidance. Performance is so bad that I don't even count it as a skill, but in my opinion it is bad for a...

Because it is perfectly in-line with the rules for the GM to say that it isn't possible. The only reliable way to do that is using magic, because magic has rules. Note that vaguely defined skills are not a problem by itself. Fate and similar systems handle them very well. The problem is when...

Only slight hyperbole. The skill functions if the GM is willing to have the skill actually do something, but it has no actionable rules. This means not only that the skill is seriously prone to GM-fiat issues, but also that a player can never know exactly what you can do with it.

Intimidation is a trash skill. It's useless. It doesn't do anything. It has no rules. If you want to play a fighter who intimidates people, play a bladesinger and use the fear spell.

Triangle Academy, possibly. It lacks the versatility of more main stream systems, but man do I love the presentation and the writing and everything.

So I read everything that's been posted here and this might have already been brought up and I missed it, but there is, as I remember it, mentioned in one of the old Planescape books something quite similar to this idea as presented by the OP. Here is a paraphrase from memory. "The people on...

I've always despised the concept of dinosaurs in my fantasy. I don't really know why I feel like this, but to me dinosaurs are sci-fi. They are modern. I associate them with electrified fences, DNA manipulation and hackers (I blame Jurassic Park).

I don't think so. I'm pretty sure there is no support for reactive spells in any of the infinity engine games.

Nah the problem is that the excessively long campaign wastes space. I can make my own campaign, but I want inspirational material for the setting itself. The ideal approach would be to keep them entirely separate, so for something like Ravenloft you'd have a core Ravenloft book with perhaps a...

They need to release proper setting books again, not these terrible campaign books that are part setting part mid adventure.

That reasoning is questionable because what it leads to is the conclusion that spellcasting must be a trivially simple activity like snapping your fingers (actually easier), but at the same time spellcasting is restricted specifically to some classes (while presenting the activity itself as...

There's a tendency on these forums for someone to start a thread about something like, say, how lock picking works in 5E, and the thread will inevitably end up in a near flamewar about whether or not Gandalf is actually a wizard.