Should I use the Class Skill system?

[MichaelK]

Thankyou everyone for the feedback. I will use class skills this time around, after all I'd like to try it and if it turns out to not be working out we can always get rid of it and rebuild the characters as they would be without class skills.

I'll take a look at Cityscape again, I don't remember how the skill substitution worked in there.

 

[clearstream]

I've got to admit I never actually used the class/cross-class skills system with D&D. However I was wondering if I was ignoring something useful.

My feeling is that the limits should be mostly about a cross-class skill user not being as good as a class skill user, rather than a price overhead.

So I use level + 2 as a maximum for class skills and half level +1 for cross-class, but cross-class costs the same as class.

-vk