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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmu1" data-source="post: 3689999" data-attributes="member: 319">That's actually what I most dislike about the Saga system - how alike everyone who's "good" at something ends up being, and how there's no real way to distinguish yourself from other people who decided to specialize in a give skill.In D&D, there's quite a bit of a difference and a good deal of granularity between someone who:1.  Decides to have his character get good at something, so he allocates a decent score to the corresponding ability and takes as many skill ranks as he feels he needs to be able to use it well enough that it can be considered one of his notable skills, and2. Someone who decides he wants his character to be excellent, world-class, so he allocates a good score to the appropriate ability, maxes out the ranks, puts 5 ranks into a related skill or two for a synergy bonus, and maybe gets Skill Focus on top of it. In SWSE, if you try to make your character world-class, you end up with a +5 modifier over everyone who's merely trained in it, and as everyone advances, you lose your lead because the +5 is an ever shrinking percentage of your skill bonus total. You also have virtually no way of distinguishing yourself from other people who did take Skill Focus. (short of increasing in level) The end result is stuff like all Force users of a given level having a Use Force check within 1 or 2 points of each other...</blockquote>