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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 4943250" data-attributes="member: 7006">If I was to make an uneducated guess as to the design decisions for the first Player's Handbook with regards to the fighter only getting three skills...PH1 has several feats that gave a bonus to hit in specific situations, and has the Skill Training feat that allows you to take a new Trained skill.  So perhaps the thought was to give most classes a 4th trained skill on their list and make them spend a feat to get bonuses to attack, whereas the fighter got the bonus to all attacks as part of his class abilities and then would spend a feat to get another trained skill.  So in the end they could end up the same way... 4 trained skills, a bonus to hit, and you've spent a feat to accomplish it.Now this doesn't explain the barbarian nor the new Martial Power fighter builds... but perhaps in the year and a half since PH1 development ended, they've made other decisions or priorities have shifted?  Can't really say.  But at least the original fighter builds do have somewhat of a possible explanation.</blockquote>