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<blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 3376263" data-attributes="member: 13966"><p>Dremmen:</p><p>That's because the different classes spend their time and training differently. Rogues have more time and practice to devote to miscellaneous stuff than other characters, whereas a Fighter devotes most of his time and training to combat, having very little time for other 'skills'. A wizard devotes much to learning magic, and has little time to spend on skills that don't pertain directly to wielding magic. Etc.</p><p></p><p>And it's part of their balance. You may have problems if you give all classes the same number of skill points, and take away BAB to boot. The skill-point advantage of Rogues is one of their main strengths (along with Sneak Attack), while the high BAB of Fighter-types is their main strength. You'd need to compensate warrior-types a bit, and rogue-types a bit. Otherwise the Rogue becomes just a flimsy Fighter with cowardly tactics instead of bonus feats, and nothin' much to show for his deficiency in HP.</p><p></p><p>As part of it, maybe classes with high BAB replace it with 1 free rank in each of two Combat skills at each level in those classes, but limited to Combat skills that are class skills for them? While classes with medium BAB replace it with 1 free rank in any Combat class skill at each level. I dunno.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Arkhandus, post: 3376263, member: 13966"] Dremmen: That's because the different classes spend their time and training differently. Rogues have more time and practice to devote to miscellaneous stuff than other characters, whereas a Fighter devotes most of his time and training to combat, having very little time for other 'skills'. A wizard devotes much to learning magic, and has little time to spend on skills that don't pertain directly to wielding magic. Etc. And it's part of their balance. You may have problems if you give all classes the same number of skill points, and take away BAB to boot. The skill-point advantage of Rogues is one of their main strengths (along with Sneak Attack), while the high BAB of Fighter-types is their main strength. You'd need to compensate warrior-types a bit, and rogue-types a bit. Otherwise the Rogue becomes just a flimsy Fighter with cowardly tactics instead of bonus feats, and nothin' much to show for his deficiency in HP. As part of it, maybe classes with high BAB replace it with 1 free rank in each of two Combat skills at each level in those classes, but limited to Combat skills that are class skills for them? While classes with medium BAB replace it with 1 free rank in any Combat class skill at each level. I dunno. [/QUOTE]
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