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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ARandomGod" data-source="post: 2159921" data-attributes="member: 17296">using more skill checks is a good idea. Skills should be useful, and intelligence gives more skills. Of course, there will still be some classes (say, fighters), who'll almost completely ignore intelligence. They don't get many skills, so they just resign themselves to being skill-less. But I don't really see that as ALL bad. Wisdom. Will saves are often save or die. When used on the party fighter they can sometimes be save or have the rest of the party die. It's also used for some of the more important skills (well, spot).As for charisma. Well, charisma sucks. They really need to redo it altogether. However, they've made a start. It's now really a strength of will, your presence, your force of personality. As such, if you want it to mean more I suggest furthering this and alter the stats attached to saving throws.1)Fort --> Leave this one on Con. Makes the most sense2)Reflex --> Change this one to Wisdom. Wisdom lets you see things and react to things before you really know they're there. Really wisdom makes the most sense for a save that's in reaction to something that you've had little or no warning about. Also how else can you *really* justify allowing reflex saves when you're otherwise flatfooted and can't use any OTHER dex thing?3) Will --> This save almost obviously should go to Charisma. Charisma IS your willpower, the way it's now handled. So why isn't it also the will save?The only real problem I see with this is that will have a tendancy to make the cleric, already a really strong class, that much stronger (you *could* counter this by lowering their will save to poor and maybe increasing their reflex save to good, but I'd say just let their will save be awesome). Dex will still have almost more impact than any other stat, even with taking away it's save. Wisdom will be just as good, still having a save attached to it, and Charisma suddenly means *something* to every class. It's such a good solution I'm a little surprised that the makers didn't design it this way in the first place.(*Note; I myself have never used this or seen this used, but I still espouse it. It's just too useful to have at least ONE garunteed dump stat.)</blockquote>

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