Elegant nixing of skill ranks?

[Nyaricus]

I'm still trying to figure out how to make Int a more important part of this...

Any ideas, anyone?

 

[Quartz]

Try this:

There are two sets of skills: character skills and non-character skills. All skills start as non-character skills and require 2SP per rank. Skills become character skills when the character takes a level in a class which gives them as skills. Once a skill is a character skill it remains a character skill.