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<blockquote data-quote="Greg Benage" data-source="post: 6755428" data-attributes="member: 93631">You can run the game without skills (there's even an optional rule in the DMG for it). I still use the listed skills to define specializations for Expertise. Otherwise, you can gain proficiency bonus on a task based on background, class or your description of what your character is doing.Pros:* Simplifies character creation* Incentivizes player creativity and descriptive game-play* Reinforces a class-based system (as opposed to a hybrid class/skill-based system)Cons:* Results in some negotiation** Creates some uncertainty in edge cases about what a character can do well* But this usually ties into the &quot;player creativity and descriptive game-play&quot; idea. If a player says, &quot;I grew up on the streets and had to learn how to lie just to survive,&quot; I could look at that as &quot;working the DM&quot; in order to get a bonus on a Cha check. Or I could look at it as the player engaging with the game and developing their character in play. I choose the latter.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Greg Benage, post: 6755428, member: 93631"] You can run the game without skills (there's even an optional rule in the DMG for it). I still use the listed skills to define specializations for Expertise. Otherwise, you can gain proficiency bonus on a task based on background, class or your description of what your character is doing. Pros: * Simplifies character creation * Incentivizes player creativity and descriptive game-play * Reinforces a class-based system (as opposed to a hybrid class/skill-based system) Cons: * Results in some negotiation* * Creates some uncertainty in edge cases about what a character can do well * But this usually ties into the "player creativity and descriptive game-play" idea. If a player says, "I grew up on the streets and had to learn how to lie just to survive," I could look at that as "working the DM" in order to get a bonus on a Cha check. Or I could look at it as the player engaging with the game and developing their character in play. I choose the latter. [/QUOTE]

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