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Message: <blockquote data-quote="index" data-source="post: 1648341" data-attributes="member: 21195">new skills dilute skill pointsDreamChaser wrote :> The general idea is that each new skill added weakens the system (as> each one is bought by ranks over time and requires a check) but each> new feat or spell strengthens it (as each one is merely a new choice> that functions independently of the others).> Thus, no new skills usually.Correct.  Every new skill dilutes the few skill pointscharacters have available to spend.  Plus you have todecide, who gets it as a class skill?The WotC way to handle new skills seems to be to brutallyshoe-horn them in as new applications of old skills.IIRC, d20 Modern explicitly says no new skills are allowed.(But of course, that's d20 Modern, not D&D.)Every new spell strengthens wizards (and clerics andothers).  For Sorcerers and Bards, a new spell is atoss-up.  They can learn it only at the cost of one of theirlimited spell slots.The perception seems to be that every new feat strengthensthe game by giving more choices.  I don't feel that way.  Ifeel that every new feat dilutes the very limited pool offeat slots each character gets.  And many of them, as a sidenote, establish a penalty for people without the feat for anact that previously anyone could try.(I was nearly frothing when I read the feat that allows asecond rank person to attack a target in front of a frontrank person with a reach weapon without penalty, whileeveryone else has -4.  What, so EVERY single second andthird rank pike man in medieval armies spent one of theirprecious feat slots on this?  Human first level warriorsonly have two feat slots.  Pike squares were too effectivein combat to assume that most defenders were attacking at-4.)(Does anyone know the name of the feat I'm talking about?)--index</blockquote>

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