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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael_R_Proteau" data-source="post: 4133428" data-attributes="member: 48658">Getting rid of skill points is one of the easiest ways to simplify the game and reduce DM prep time, two of the biggest criticisms I have of 3.5. Skill points create a lot of needless bookkeeping that rarely comes into actual gameplay, especially when creating NPCs of improving/creating monsters. I am not 100% satisfied with the Alpha sills system, I would like to see an elimination of the cross-class/class skill distinction. However, I think eliminating skill points was a huge step in the right direction. I am looking forward to the Alpha revision dealing with the skills they mentioned was in the works and hoping that it does not make a step back to skill points. The way we currently houserule the acquisition of class skill/cross skill distinction is that the number of skills you get to choose for your class must choose from among your class skill list, as these represent what you learned in training to become 1st level in your class, but those you get to choose based on your Intelligence modifier can be taken from the entire skill list as they represent things you learned before you began "training to be an adventurer in a particular class." Any new skills you learn after character generation have to reflect things you would have learned in play or during downtime between adventures. Example: your wizard is travelling with a group of adventurers and has to spend time on watch, the experience makes him better at doing so, and when he learns a new skill he chooses Perception. It is an outgrouth of the character. He did not spend any time learning about the outer planes during his adventures and had no time to spend in a library or tracing down scrolls, so he cannot add Knowledge (the planes) as a new skill until that opportunity presents itself. It can also ad potential hooks for future adventures if the character wants to learn about the outer planes (or any other skill for that matter).</blockquote>

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