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<blockquote data-quote="olshanski" data-source="post: 4032358" data-attributes="member: 7441">I think that the way character generation is created, there is a stong incentive to specialize... a group of 4 specialists will usually far outshine a group of 4 generalists....A fighter doesn't excel by taking weaponfocus (axe), weaponfocus(sword), weaponfocus(bow), weaponfocus (spear)...A fighter excels by taking weaponfocus(sword), Specialization(sword), improved critical (sword), improved weaponfocus(sword).So what you have are character that choose to excel at a certian type of fighting (archery, melee, conjuration, evocation), and you have characters that excell at a broad range of skills... (diplomacy, sense motive, etcetera)Whenever there is combat, the skillmonkey basically sits idly, and whenever you have a skill-use area, the person with the skills gets to shine and everyone else gets to sit out.I'd much rather have a complete separation of combat and non-combat abilities... so that each character has a chance to be equally effective in combat, and each character has a chance to be equally effective outside of combat....Perhaps you have a melee fighter that is great with negotiation, a wizard that is great at disarming traps, an archer that is great at stealth, and a conjurer that is great at balance and climbing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="olshanski, post: 4032358, member: 7441"] I think that the way character generation is created, there is a stong incentive to specialize... a group of 4 specialists will usually far outshine a group of 4 generalists.... A fighter doesn't excel by taking weaponfocus (axe), weaponfocus(sword), weaponfocus(bow), weaponfocus (spear)... A fighter excels by taking weaponfocus(sword), Specialization(sword), improved critical (sword), improved weaponfocus(sword). So what you have are character that choose to excel at a certian type of fighting (archery, melee, conjuration, evocation), and you have characters that excell at a broad range of skills... (diplomacy, sense motive, etcetera) Whenever there is combat, the skillmonkey basically sits idly, and whenever you have a skill-use area, the person with the skills gets to shine and everyone else gets to sit out. I'd much rather have a complete separation of combat and non-combat abilities... so that each character has a chance to be equally effective in combat, and each character has a chance to be equally effective outside of combat.... Perhaps you have a melee fighter that is great with negotiation, a wizard that is great at disarming traps, an archer that is great at stealth, and a conjurer that is great at balance and climbing. [/QUOTE]

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