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<blockquote data-quote="Akrasia" data-source="post: 1813235" data-attributes="member: 23012">Well if we are going to take some ideas from C&amp;C, then there is a way to get around the problem of &quot;a Strong character only good at Athletic skills&quot; by means of the &quot;prime&quot; system. A Strong character would have strength as a &quot;prime&quot;, but would also get to choose 1-2 other ability scores as additional &quot;primes&quot;.&nbsp; A prime lowers the DC (or TN -- &quot;target number&quot;) for all tasks associated with that ability score.&nbsp; So a Strong character who choose Intelligence as his/her additional prime would be quite good at Intelligence-related tasks, even though he/she would add a lower number (half-level, rounded down) to all &quot;cross-class skill&quot; modifiers to the task in question.&nbsp; So the Strong hero in question would be quite good at Intelligence tasks (much better than a Strong hero who chose Dexterity as his prime), but not as good as a Smart hero.Ummm ... hope that makes sense.&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool&nbsp; &nbsp; :cool:"&nbsp; data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> Good job at streamlining the skill list, btw.&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Akrasia, post: 1813235, member: 23012"] Well if we are going to take some ideas from C&C, then there is a way to get around the problem of "a Strong character only good at Athletic skills" by means of the "prime" system. A Strong character would have strength as a "prime", but would also get to choose 1-2 other ability scores as additional "primes". A prime lowers the DC (or TN -- "target number") for all tasks associated with that ability score. So a Strong character who choose Intelligence as his/her additional prime would be quite good at Intelligence-related tasks, even though he/she would add a lower number (half-level, rounded down) to all "cross-class skill" modifiers to the task in question. So the Strong hero in question would be quite good at Intelligence tasks (much better than a Strong hero who chose Dexterity as his prime), but not as good as a Smart hero. Ummm ... hope that makes sense. :cool: Good job at streamlining the skill list, btw. :) [/QUOTE]

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