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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 6113018" data-attributes="member: 52734">An additional thought:You could break the skills into broad and narrow categories; broad cost more, cover more areas, but grant a lesser bonus (say +1 or +2).  A narrow skill, of course, covers a more limited use, but grants a higher bonus (say +2 or +4) and costs less.Consume Alchohol and Use Rope seem great versions of a Narrow skill that cost 1, have very limited use and would give a better bonus.  In contrast, Survival would be a broad skill and you might be able to coax using rope or consume alchohol out of it, but you'd get a lower bonus to your check overall.  I'd probably not allow the two bonuses to stack if they overlap, just use the better bonus.This way, a Group could decide to just go with the broad skills - they'd cover most situations and characters would be generally skilled and able to do most things to some degree (sort of 4Eish).  Other groups might use a mix of broad and narrow, allowing some specialization (2Eish).  "Hard-core" groups might only use the narrow skills - you don't know it, you can't do it (more 3Eish).</blockquote>