Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
White Dwarf Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Nest
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
EN Publishing
Twitter
BlueSky
Facebook
Instagram
EN World
BlueSky
YouTube
Facebook
Twitter
Twitch
Podcast
Features
Million Dollar TTRPG Crowdfunders
Most Anticipated Tabletop RPGs Of The Year
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
ShortQuests -- individual adventure modules! An all-new collection of digest-sized D&D adventures designed to plug in to your game.
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
changing the way cross class skills work
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Negative Zero" data-source="post: 1303201" data-attributes="member: 3794"><p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">i've never liked the artificial limits imposed by cross class skills. or, more to the point, the permanency of those limits.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">after purchasing 5 cross class ranks (i.e. 2 skill points per rank) in a cross class skill, the character becomes proficient enough in that skill to add it to his class skill list. </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">thereafter, all ranks will be purchased as class skills (i.e. one skill point per rank). </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">in addition, the cross class skill limit is now character level+1 (as opposed to the standard level+3/2)</span></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">the rationale behind this is; if a character is dedicated to a skill, at some point, he should become better able to grasp and understand it's subtleties. i don't think it's unbalancing since each class still has the same number of skill points per level to work with. in fact, i've always thought that having too many class skills and not enough skill points is kinda cruel <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">i've also felt that the cross class skill point limit was too severe. cross class skill or no, if a character is willing to invest his hard earned skill points, he's already being penalised by having to spend double the amount for each rank.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">so, what do you think?</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">~NegZ</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Negative Zero, post: 1303201, member: 3794"] [font=Courier New]i've never liked the artificial limits imposed by cross class skills. or, more to the point, the permanency of those limits.[/font] [font=Courier New]after purchasing 5 cross class ranks (i.e. 2 skill points per rank) in a cross class skill, the character becomes proficient enough in that skill to add it to his class skill list. [/font][font=Courier New]thereafter, all ranks will be purchased as class skills (i.e. one skill point per rank). [/font] [font=Courier New]in addition, the cross class skill limit is now character level+1 (as opposed to the standard level+3/2)[/font] [font=Courier New]the rationale behind this is; if a character is dedicated to a skill, at some point, he should become better able to grasp and understand it's subtleties. i don't think it's unbalancing since each class still has the same number of skill points per level to work with. in fact, i've always thought that having too many class skills and not enough skill points is kinda cruel :D[/font] [font=Courier New]i've also felt that the cross class skill point limit was too severe. cross class skill or no, if a character is willing to invest his hard earned skill points, he's already being penalised by having to spend double the amount for each rank.[/font] [font=Courier New]so, what do you think?[/font] [font=Courier New]~NegZ[/font] [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
changing the way cross class skills work
Top