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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 5783994" data-attributes="member: 1465">I used to love the fine-tuning skill points system, but on the long run I realized that such flexibility is not that needed, and it has some other drawback (like players thinking too much about how to spread points to be "trained" in as many skills as possible).I am sure that skill selection is an area of PC creation that WotC can most easily give different levels of customization, so I wouldn't take the option away. Anyway, once I was tired with fine-tuning, I just started to max out as fewest skills as possible, with no need for house rules.Regarding non-combat skills... hell yeah! I know that most players wanted to find ways to make their skills useful in combat, just like all spells, but for me an adventure is combat PLUS non-combat, and skills were the perfect tools in 3e to represent non-combat situations. To the point that when I presented 3e to newcomers I used to say that the game was made of combat, magic, and skills, with the latter kind-of covering "everything else beside combat and magic" <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />About synergy bonuses... I liked them, they made a lot of sense, but it's one of those things that got forgotten regularly in our games. I think we can live without them, or make them an optional subsystem of the skills rules.Right now, I think the skill systems in 5e will have to be presented in its most basic form, meaning that characters choose a number of skills and they are maximized. Maybe with a variant that for each skill max'ed you can opt for 2 skills at half their max. Then a sidebar/paragraph can introduce a fine-tuning point system. For both to coexist, I think the 3e skill system is better suited than the 4e system.</blockquote>

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