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<blockquote data-quote="DND_Reborn" data-source="post: 8037250" data-attributes="member: 6987520">Just to address the combat issue. You are missing more with my ideas, but because HP is half, your hits count for twice as much. In reality, the number of rounds is roughly the same, maybe a bit less, than rolling normally against normal HP. But, the speed of each round is faster because you aren't rolling dice for damage and tracking damage with 2/3rd of the attacks, only about 1/3 (over all, that is). Given it does take a slight amount of time for comparing the 2d20's, the overall benefit is to speed up the combats IRT.Now, on to skills! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I hadn't thought of capping non-proficient, I sort of came up when I was considered 4d6-4 for proficient and only 2d6-2 (later 3d6-3) for non-proficient since the highest you could get in 2d6-2 was 10 (and 15 on 3d6-3).I'm fine with granting additional proficiencies with each tier as it allows PCs to improve something as they level without having to devote a feat to it. Now, if the 5E system was a skill point system like 3E, then I think your idea would work well (as I understand it anyway). I've toyed with doing a skill point system for 5E, but honestly the hassle seemed more than it was worth.Thanks for sharing your thoughts!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DND_Reborn, post: 8037250, member: 6987520"] Just to address the combat issue. You are missing more with my ideas, but because HP is half, your hits count for twice as much. In reality, the [I]number[/I] of rounds is roughly the same, maybe a bit less, than rolling normally against normal HP. But, the speed of each round is faster because you aren't rolling dice for damage and tracking damage with 2/3rd of the attacks, only about 1/3 (over all, that is). Given it does take a slight amount of time for comparing the 2d20's, the overall benefit is to speed up the combats IRT. Now, on to skills! :) I hadn't thought of capping non-proficient, I [I]sort of[/I] came up when I was considered 4d6-4 for proficient and only 2d6-2 (later 3d6-3) for non-proficient since the highest you could get in 2d6-2 was 10 (and 15 on 3d6-3). I'm fine with granting additional proficiencies with each tier as it allows PCs to improve [I]something[/I] as they level without having to devote a feat to it. Now, if the 5E system was a skill [I]point[/I] system like 3E, then I think your idea would work well (as I understand it anyway). I've toyed with doing a skill point system for 5E, but honestly the hassle seemed more than it was worth. Thanks for sharing your thoughts! [/QUOTE]

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