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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5635787" data-attributes="member: 82106">Sure, but your last point is the biggie. You often use examples of kingdom building and ritual use and such, which are a bit 'fuzzy' and might kind of fit in, but even then there are issues. Rituals require skills for instance. If you use them then you have to use skills. If skills are optional for rituals then the rituals all have to be designed in such a way as to work without skills, making skills not worth much. Alternatively each ritual has to specify alternative rules that work with or without skills. Worse, if the skills system is added after the ritual system then the skills system has to go in and modify rituals itself, all material that is worthless to someone not using rituals. Beyond that "Social Combat" CERTAINLY rests on skills (or needs to be basically 2 separate systems) so you have to 'stack' to get it. Given that most every table will want to use SOMETHING that skills are directly relevant for we've basically created a practical requirement that the skills module be used, so it might as well be core. You can repeat this argument with each major subsystem. The problem with a single 'point pool' is that it will have to pit combat options vs non-combat options. We already know where that leads. Those streams really should not cross unless they have to. It might work OK, but I think it will create some funny meta-game issues for players. Personally I'm not bothered by that. Let exploration be a narrative type activity and combat be a more gamist kind of activity. In fact that is already largely true with 4e as it is. It may be that some players are going to not like some of those areas of the game that don't match up too well with their style, but players already have diverse interests and I'm not sure that this really creates any new problems. An 'explorer' player has to deal with the fact that there will be combats and a 'slayer' player has to deal with the fact that combat isn't the whole game.</blockquote>

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