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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 5041725" data-attributes="member: 7006">I would imagine any balancing of classes that involved the Skills list was probably only really effective when the PH1 was ther only resource available.  At that point, with a much smaller Feats list (especially for feats that were applicable to certain classes)... using a feat on either Skill Training or Skill Focus was actually a viable (or in some cases only) choice.  Thus, with that kind of expectation of supplementation, aligning the number of skills a class had to the overall class features was probably thought upon at least a small bit.However, with the influx of all these feats from all these new sources available... there seems to be always something better or more useful to take than the feats that enhance skills.  Thus, the idea of using the number of skills as a balancing class factor has gone by the wayside.But I would have to say that all is not lost... because Backgrounds have now taken the Feat's place as a way to enchance a PC's skill list.  You now get to customize your character slightly more, by gaining an extra +2 to an existing skill or a new skill to add to your skill list.  They just aren't AS effective as using feats though, since the Skill Focus feat gives you an additional +3 (instead of +2), and Skill Training gives you an extra Trained Skill (whereas the Background only adds a skill to your skill list, but your number of trained skills remains the same).</blockquote>

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