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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cryptos" data-source="post: 4272904" data-attributes="member: 58439">I don't know... for some, assuming the default array, it could be a wash.  (Your wizard with Arcana +Int is getting Arcana +3, just as they do now.)  For others, it might bring about more stat-related hardships, as people are already complaining about the stat requirements on feats.  If rogues suddenly feel they need more INT to get the most skills, they lose out on a lot of feat choices, and gain very little in feat choices from INT.I did like Pukuni's idea of bring in secondary skills.  I've also been going back and forth on literacy.  On one side, I don't know if I want to deal with it in game in terms of PCs being illiterate.  On the other side, it is a fairly dark setting I'm using, and illiteracy is reasonably common with the NPCs of most races.  I was just going to ask players to work it into their backgrounds somehow that they were taught how to read and write.  But I might do this:  A character with an Int bonus is literate in one language per +1 Int bonus.  If they don't know that many languages, or don't want to be literate for some reason in a given language, they can identify one trade skill or vocation their character knows per +1.  They gain a bonus to ability checks and knowledge checks relating to that trade skill or vocation, and to interaction checks with someone sharing that vocation, as if they were Trained (+5).</blockquote>