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<blockquote data-quote="Dethklok" data-source="post: 6166887" data-attributes="member: 6746469">Ah yes; the sages know that this is the way of heaven. One class is too many for a good roleplaying game.They are badly designed. In a game where attributes play a strong role, it is impossible to design a jack of all trades that can compete with any specialized character on the specialized character's ground.(Arguments to the effect that &quot;GURPS is a well designed game&quot; are undermined by this point. GURPS has only four attributes - and functionally, only two, DX and IQ. Such an environment discourages specialization.)As a final aside, it might be possible to design a game with weak (or no) attributes that still rewarded specialization by having skill improvement slow down with global rather than local ability. What I mean by this is, instead of having skill improvement in skill X slow down the more levels you have in X, have all skill improvement across all skills slow down the more total skill levels you have. Under such a system, Level 1 could be put towards any skill; level 2 towards any skill, and so on. But as each level gets harder to reach, spending your 20th skill level to achieve level 1 in Stealth isn't very appealing when you could put it into one of your higher-level skills.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dethklok, post: 6166887, member: 6746469"] Ah yes; the sages know that this is the way of heaven. One class is too many for a good roleplaying game. They are badly designed. In a game where attributes play a strong role, it is impossible to design a jack of all trades that can compete with any specialized character on the specialized character's ground. (Arguments to the effect that "GURPS is a well designed game" are undermined by this point. GURPS has only four attributes - and functionally, only two, DX and IQ. Such an environment discourages specialization.) As a final aside, it might be possible to design a game with weak (or no) attributes that still rewarded specialization by having skill improvement slow down with [I]global[/I] rather than [I]local[/I] ability. What I mean by this is, instead of having skill improvement in skill X slow down the more levels you have in X, have all skill improvement across all skills slow down the more total skill levels you have. Under such a system, Level 1 could be put towards any skill; level 2 towards any skill, and so on. But as each level gets harder to reach, spending your 20th skill level to achieve level 1 in Stealth isn't very appealing when you could put it into one of your higher-level skills. [/QUOTE]

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