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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 5665825" data-attributes="member: 59506">I liked most of the last article (Difficulty Class Warfare), and decided to implement most of it into my houserules. But I'll take a pass on this one. Training an Ability just doesn't make sense to me. If it's training, then it's a Skill. If you "Train" an Ability, then you simply increase the Ability Score. I think this new idea needlessly confuses things, and actually makes resolution (or at least character creation) more complicated instead of less. I don't see how this is an improvement. It breaks my sense of realism also.  In real life, one can do general and specific exercises that can increase an Ability Score (Dex, Str, Con), but that doesn't necessarily make you a trained athlete.  Training in an athletic skill is a specialized skill that involves muscle memory and skill in a specific set of talents for expertise, not just generalized increase in an ability.  Increasing an ability score will make you generally better in all athletic skills, just as in real life - but it by no means makes you a profesional athlete (swimmer, runner, specific sport player, etc.).  Only specialized training in that specific area will make you a professional - and that's skill training.</blockquote>