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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9873409" data-attributes="member: 93670">The 5e skill system is too awful on too many levels.  Dms best friend combined with bonus types was objectively better than "oh I help" in every way unless you assume that the skill system's entire role in play is to support some kind of free form roleplay where it has have no role whatsoever.  That kind of assumption is absurd in ways that should never have been placed at the apex of primary design goals for the skill system.Beyond that the choose your overly combined starting skills and they auto scale cradle to grave under the guise of simplification or whatever compared to class/cross class skills with ranks assigned level by level ultimately just puts more pressure to cookie cutter select the single most optimal combo or else.  Gone are the days where a PC might have a couple ranks in a few oddball skills for prereqs to something or flavor because the player thought some basic competency would be useful to that PC, now any skill check of weight is just an echoing chorus of "oh I'm proficient too ill help/can I try" rather than "I think I could use [totally different skill] to help Bob do that by using it to do [specific thing].  Even the adnd2e Oriental adventures (?) proficiency based skill system recognized the need for a more granular level by level set of skill choices than 5e.Switching from reasonably distinct fort reflex and will saves to six  needlessly indistinct and overly split saves watered down by a poorly implemented version of bounded accuracy is another sin that's come up a few times already I'm sick and freaking tired of being told to use waves of go bloated monsters to avoid players stun locking solo monster types because the level appropriate ogre troll lich dragon or whatever is itself reduced to a bag of hp and 5e removed the tactical grid combat elements that allowed a handful of mooks to present a meaningful hurdle between PCs/the solo</blockquote>

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