D&D General How would you redo 4e?

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One is that the skills math and the combat maths are not the same. This gets worse as levels grow, and the gaps get bigger. It shows up in stat blocks for monsters and NPCs with weak skill bonuses; in the fact that using skills against defences is not mathematically smooth; etc.

The second is related: there is no smooth interface between the concrete elements of combat resolution (turn-by-turn resolution in a tight ingame time frame; plus tight tracking of physical location using squares-per-turn movement rates) and the abstraction of skill challenge resolution.

I am not big on skill challenges, but I do agree with skills vs. combat bonuses, which is why I realigned them in my own 4e-inspired game. It is useful for any number of reasons, plus I treat attack bonuses as just other skills. I like things to line up.