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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 4943041" data-attributes="member: 22779">No, that's not the end.  That's too simplistic.  Just because you have more raw choices (and I don't mean rules as written raw, just base choices) does not mean you have more diversity in play.  If a segment of those choices are better than others, then you wind up with fewer real choices.That's an issue I'm trying to bring up.  Because the skill rules (and most of the chargen rules for that matter) in 3e so heavily reward laser beam focus and actively punish not focusing, you don't actually have that many real choices.  Yes, you can have 2 ranks in Knowledge Arcana, but, by double digit levels, that's just a waste of time.  It won't do anything.A choice that leads to a dead end is not a real choice IMO.  Now Primal's game moved around that by changing the rules, and that's fine.  But, that's not what we are discussing.  We're not talking about Primal's game, we're talking about 3e D&D.  IMO, you actually don't have the diversity you claim in 3e, simply because when the pencil hits the paper, so many of the choices are so obviously bad that they become more or less invalid.So, most characters wind up being extreme experts in a very small number of skills (barring rogues of course) and being completely incompetent in the rest.  That's not diversity, that's actually homogeniety.  Everyone is a small area expert, large area incompetent.  Yes, you can still be a small area expert in 4e, but, because of the way the mechanics work, you can actually spread that around a bit and still be capable of success (albeit not likely).</blockquote>

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