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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gweinel" data-source="post: 5801713" data-attributes="member: 2165">skill (less) system...It seems that they haven't decided 100% yet what the skill system will be. In today's rule of three: <a href="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4" target="_blank">Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article</a>... They want to make a skill-less system but i am not sure if it will gonna make it to the end. Regarding skills, imho, the thing of greatest important is character customization. I don't know how classes/races/themes work on the skills but  in such system i am afraid the homogeneity of the characters. Every elf fighter with noble theme would have exactly the same skills? This is something i wouldn't like happening. The difference between a human noble and and dwarf noble would be only on the racial skill modifiers? This sounds awful too. Now on the other hand a character may have choices: The elf race has 10 racial skill bonuses (that would be a +2 to perception, +2 nature, +2 arcana, etc etc) and you must choose 4. The noble theme has 6 theme skill bonuses and you can take 2. The fighter class has 12 class skill bonuses and you can take 6. This kind of treatment of a skilless system is something that i would like more. And after that what about advancing? If i would like to learn a new skill? It would be a feat? I hope not. I think noone took feats for skills.A more organic skill advancement would be a guideness: "After you lvl up discuss with your dm what skill your character would like to take/raise (or what is appropriate - story based) and put a +2 on that skill. If it is not on your race/class/theme then put a +1. A solution like this is more of my liking. In any case i would suggest to make one or two good skill modules more since as i see everyone wants a different skill system <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" /></blockquote>

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