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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rounser" data-source="post: 1374986" data-attributes="member: 1106">Going too far down this road might undermine D&D's reward structure...we don't know though.For my tastes, it's too open ended as it stands - I think it needs caps and more relating back to ability scores and levels.  It's great in that it gives players a lot of customisability, but I think that it's just too wishy washy and floating in scope to be very useful - I remember someone involved in the Neverwinter Nights design saying that you can't predict that a character of level X will have a certain skill rank, which means that there's no designing adventures with that assumption built in.  1E and 2E were better in this respect, as in 1E you knew roughly what a theif of level X would have in pick pocket, and in 2E the semi-official "ability check" was unrelated to level.So long as they don't get too creative.  The Epic and Psionics books can be considered WotC designers having stabs at presenting alternative magic systems, and both came out not-so-good.  It would be a pity to have that sort of weakness end up in the core rules of next edition.</blockquote>