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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 4112266" data-attributes="member: 2067">It's not just a perception. 3e says: "20 ranks in Climb lets you do all these things!". 4e says "If you want to try and escape the city by climbing the walls, that sounds good, do you want an easy, medium, or hard difficulty?"3e says "Tripping can't be 'used up,' so do it whenever you want." 4e says "Tripping can't be 'used up,' really, but you can only do it once per encounter, however you want to make sense of that."I don't see how 4e is doing anything that any other class-based system hasn't already done, here. 3e's classes have unique options. 4e's classes will, too. 2e's classes did. 1e's classes did. And the unique options have nothing, AFAICT, to do with where each game's rules system focuses.I'm not sure how you can look at the RULES for Trip (for instance) that we know and tell me that 4e cares what your character is literally capable of as much as it cares about what your character functionally does. That's the heart of what I'm saying. 3e's rules revolved strongly around building a character. 4e's rules revolve more strongly around building a scene. You can't have a scene without some characters, and you can't have characters without some sort of scene for them to be in, but the focus is a bit different, in the rules.</blockquote>