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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Croesus" data-source="post: 5633762" data-attributes="member: 35019">I would suggest it's both an adventure design issue and an issue of the rules. Example: For most skills, unless you can Take 20, having lots of skill levels in a few skills is far more useful than having a few skill levels in many. In the latter case, you'll generally fail more often than not. For many skills, like Tumble, Disable Device, Survival, Use Magic Device, the various Knowledges, a few points is usually useless.Example: Which character is more useful - a 10th level wizard, or a 5th level bard/5th level wizard? Each character has options that the other doesn't. But are the options gained by five levels of bard (or pick a class) more useful - in or out of combat - than having 4th and 5th level spells?Example: Which character is more useful - a 10th level fighter, or a 5th level fighter/5th level bard? Ok, I give you that one - for a campaign that's not mostly combat, the ftr/bard is a good choice.I agree that a GM can design a campaign to minimize the need to specialize, but it does take conscious effort to do so when the rules tend to reward the opposite.</blockquote>