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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Goumindong" data-source="post: 4493215" data-attributes="member: 70874">Insight is your best bet. Make sure you take skill focus.Your other bet is "Telepathy ruins the game, it was removed because it ruins the game. If you want to play a telepath, don't."There is no room for adding these "middle-man" powers because the game is based on a very tight balance, where every class has something to do non-combat, and every class has something to do in combat. Non-combat powers break that, because your choice necessarily reduces your combat effectiveness. Skills have the same balance. They are the system by which you interact with non-combat encounters. They, rather than powers, are that system because non-combat encounters do not have a clear definitive beginning and end while combat encounters do. You do not "deal damage" to "enemies" in non-combat encounters, changing it so that you do completely screws the verisimilitude of the game and simply does not work to model complex challenges. If you do not change the system to be as such, then no "power" system that you want will create a game that is, in any way, balanced. Broadly defined results mean that players will use them to achieve many too many things that remove the difficulty of the campaign. Narrowly defined results hamstring characters too much in the broadly defined category of non-combat encounters.FR has a different problem with its backgrounds. Its backgrounds are simply power creep, they extend the maximum ability of characters to perform in skill challenges. They are, pretty much, just bad design. Not that bad, but still bad. Skill bonuses are like attack bonuses for skill challenges, handing them out is bad juju.All of your other wishes either should not be accomplished or should only be accomplished through the current mechanics of skill training, and focus. If they are boosting skills further, they break the d20 system[it is after all a d20, so you only have about 10-15 points of reasonable variation where a challenge can reasonably work], if they are circumventing skills that is even worse.</blockquote>

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