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Message: <blockquote data-quote="amerigoV" data-source="post: 5825438">Welcome to a better world (Savage!)Those who first play the game tend to have that complaint, so you are not alone. But I urge you to play the game for awhile and not tinker. There is a ton of elegance in the system and making that change has a cascading effect. High abilities are reflected in that its easier to learn an associated skill (you learn at half cost). Also, its cheaper to pick up a skill at character creation than later (so if you think you will eventually use Shooting, pick it up at creation and increase it later when you want). Untrained means you have no idea what you are doing. Lets take fighting -  I am sure the first time someone steps into the boxing ring with someone who knows what they are doing will get their clock cleaned (d4-2). Now, you might learn quick if you have natural ability, but it is a skill, and it must be learned (just like D&D must be UnLearned <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />). Let take it to another skill - survival (Smarts). If you have no basic survival training, you are not going to survive if you get dumped in the desert. Being Smart allows you to learn, but it does not magically give you all the options. Plus, you will find them d4's Ace alot in critical situations. That is a great representation of beginners luck.Finally, the ability scores in Savage Worlds are much more important than in (say) D&D. Agility tricks, Smarts Tricks, Vigor rolls (Soaking damage), Spirit to come off Shaken, and Str for damage. Making them even more important will really skew the game in favor of Ability scores (which pulls people away from taking cool stuff like Edges or Skills when they get an Advance).(also doing it like Cortex is a huge shift in concept - like saying 3d6 to roll to hit for D&D instead of d20 - its a much different game despite the similarities on the surface).You should pop over to PEG's website. Clint Black, the official question answer can give you much more information about this is a much more eloquent way than I just laid out.an aside - for a Wild Card, you have a flat 35% of succeeding if my quick math works - a .1875 chance to get an ace and more than 1 on a d4 plus a .01667 chance to get a 6 on the d6. That ain't bad for a not knowing what you are doing.</blockquote>

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