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<blockquote data-quote="ExploderWizard" data-source="post: 4764690" data-attributes="member: 66434">This is exactly what I have done in my homebrew system. Any class can choose any skill set to specialize in. Each character gets 3 different skill sets throughout his/her career and chooses which one is really good (primary), decent (secondary) or only dabbled in (tertiary). No character gets any more or less available skill slots or points than another. Fighters can be thieves, scholars, or diplomats, and wizards can be athletes, rangers, and explorers if thats what is desired. Once skill sets are chosen there are no points to fiddle with, which makes it easy to use the same system for NPC's. &nbsp;This way, the NPC's don't need classes either. If a guy is a good woodsman but otherwise a normal man, I can just note: NM, ranger P12.The NPC is then defined as having ranger as a primary skill set equal to a 12th level character. Done. &nbsp;There is some overlap between skill sets and certain individual skills. Both the ranger, and thief skill sets feature stealth as part of the package for example.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ExploderWizard, post: 4764690, member: 66434"] This is exactly what I have done in my homebrew system. Any class can choose any skill set to specialize in. Each character gets 3 different skill sets throughout his/her career and chooses which one is really good (primary), decent (secondary) or only dabbled in (tertiary). No character gets any more or less available skill slots or points than another. Fighters can be thieves, scholars, or diplomats, and wizards can be athletes, rangers, and explorers if thats what is desired. Once skill sets are chosen there are no points to fiddle with, which makes it easy to use the same system for NPC's. This way, the NPC's don't need classes either. If a guy is a good woodsman but otherwise a normal man, I can just note: NM, ranger P12. The NPC is then defined as having ranger as a primary skill set equal to a 12th level character. Done. There is some overlap between skill sets and certain individual skills. Both the ranger, and thief skill sets feature stealth as part of the package for example. [/QUOTE]

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