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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GMforPowergamers" data-source="post: 6033717" data-attributes="member: 67338">I?would love to see skills scale far less. I would then make advatage the equivalant of skill focus. My idea: training in a skill gives you +2 (+3 @ 5th, +4 @ 10th, +5 @ 15th and + 6 @ 20th) you start with 4 trained skills (1 from class 3 from background) (Rogues would get 6 from 2 backgrounds) everyone gets 1 extra skill training every 4 levels ( 4, 8, 12, 16, 20)  with these they can buy more skills, or get better at the ones they have...Skill focus (2 trainings) you get advantage on all rolls with this skillSkill mastery (3 trainings) you can count any roll under your threshold as your threshold with that skill, Your threshold is 2+ 1/2 level.SPECIAL: all rogue skills have mastry without the benfit of focus, so they never need spend more then 2 trainings...So a 5th level fighter would have 4 skills 1 focus or 5 skills eaither way all at +3, well a 5th level Rogue would have 7 skills or 6 with 1 focus, but would already have the mastry threshold of 5 on all of them.I would still keep the trait in all backgrounds, meaning rogues get 2 traits.I imagin a well built Theif would take 2 backgrounds that both gave stealth, end up at 1st level focus in stealth, and at 5th level would eaither focus in traps or pick pocket as needed...</blockquote>