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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kurotowa" data-source="post: 2555549" data-attributes="member: 27957">To answer to the topic, No there isn't.  It's part of the D20 game system.In some game systems having a small investment in a skill is worthwhile.  In the White Wolf Storyteller system the skills have a 1-5 range, each point costs more than the previous one to get, and only two points will increase your effectiveness by an average of 50%-60%.  Spreading out your skills is cheaper than maxing out a few and you get a significant result from doing so.  So you'll find a multi-talented person is a viable character.In D20 having a small investment in a skill is not worthwhile.  Skills have no upper limit, each point costs the same from your very limited supply, and next to the random die roll a few points has very little positive influance.  Spreading out your skills just makes you incompetent at a lot of things (I know, I did it with my first D20 PC).  With ever increasing DCs and benefits from higher results, the system is designed with the assuption that you'll be keeping your skills at their highest level.Don't think of it as minmaxing.  Minmaxing is making your Charisma a dump stat because you know as the player you can talk well enough to make up for it.  The D20 system punishes spreading your skill points around and rewards tight focus on a few skills.  To complain is like saying that it's impossible to play a stupid Wizard because they don't get any of the good spells.  That's just how the game is designed.</blockquote>

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