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Designing a skill system that the PLAYER can opt into.
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<blockquote data-quote="keterys" data-source="post: 6122257" data-attributes="member: 43019"><p>Umm, that one player who chooses not to take skills is _much_ worse than another?</p><p></p><p>And that you've wrecked the skill DCs, which you're saying you want to avoid. Even more so than just adding a die does.</p><p></p><p>Opportunity cost. Two players. One opts into the system, one doesn't. What does one give up vs the other?</p><p></p><p>Yours does just as much. Actually, more so for all but one DC pretty much - at a certain point you'd stop bothering to roll skills with your system because there'd never be a point. I automatically get DC 20 on every check, don't even ask me to roll. What are you actually trying to get out of this? Maybe I'm misunderstanding the true goal, if you're excited that everyone would want to do skills because they make them more awesome. That's not an option, that's just a gimme.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="keterys, post: 6122257, member: 43019"] Umm, that one player who chooses not to take skills is _much_ worse than another? And that you've wrecked the skill DCs, which you're saying you want to avoid. Even more so than just adding a die does. Opportunity cost. Two players. One opts into the system, one doesn't. What does one give up vs the other? Yours does just as much. Actually, more so for all but one DC pretty much - at a certain point you'd stop bothering to roll skills with your system because there'd never be a point. I automatically get DC 20 on every check, don't even ask me to roll. What are you actually trying to get out of this? Maybe I'm misunderstanding the true goal, if you're excited that everyone would want to do skills because they make them more awesome. That's not an option, that's just a gimme. [/QUOTE]
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