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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5663720" data-attributes="member: 82106">Well, we already have 3 difficulties. All this system is equivalent to is that you slide all DCs down to level 1 on the standard DC chart and eliminate all scaling bonuses. There are now 5 difficulties instead of 3, but they are separated from each other by "infinity" points.The thing is, it doesn't seem like to me it depicts 'natural talent' at all. No matter how much natural talent you have, you're not even able to make a journeyman check, period. Even if theoretically there are some kind of corner cases that is just an oddity of the rules.My question is why is Mike messing around with the skill system? I mean, sure, someone will complain about ANYTHING, but the skill system WORK, and works WELL, and has the added advantage that it is exactly parallel to the combat system, all checks work the same.So now instead we're getting a different system, which BTW has a hard time with only having 5 total gradiations, so there are big level jumps, is totally different from all other checks, etc. It also tends to make it so that the DM can't create a situation that is hard for one guy but possible and is pretty easy for another guy, it just instantly ramps itself to 'you can't do that', and then oddly the low bonus guy is almost essentially one rank less than he really is because with STR of 10 you sure don't want to be making skill check, especially when you don't get a training bonus...</blockquote>

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