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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6815273" data-attributes="member: 1465"><p>That's not true, you can just ignore the background skill proficiencies or you could replace them with something else (like proficiency to <em>any</em> check related to the background's focus).</p><p></p><p>Rather, where skills are tied to the system is the <em>classes</em>, because you can't remove skills from the game entirely without hurting the Rogue, Bard and Ranger more than the others.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>For me it's the opposite: with so few skills as in 5e, almost every PC party can manage to cover them all, and <em>that </em>spoils the game, in the sense that many players are <em>spoiled</em> to think that everything can be resolved with a skill check instead of thinking, and when they miss the very specific skill they feel their actions are limited (your words), which they are <em>not</em>.</p><p></p><p>I like the 5e skills system broadly, but if I could have changed one thing, I would have exactly increased the skills list.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 6815273, member: 1465"] That's not true, you can just ignore the background skill proficiencies or you could replace them with something else (like proficiency to [I]any[/I] check related to the background's focus). Rather, where skills are tied to the system is the [I]classes[/I], because you can't remove skills from the game entirely without hurting the Rogue, Bard and Ranger more than the others. For me it's the opposite: with so few skills as in 5e, almost every PC party can manage to cover them all, and [I]that [/I]spoils the game, in the sense that many players are [I]spoiled[/I] to think that everything can be resolved with a skill check instead of thinking, and when they miss the very specific skill they feel their actions are limited (your words), which they are [I]not[/I]. I like the 5e skills system broadly, but if I could have changed one thing, I would have exactly increased the skills list. [/QUOTE]
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