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<blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 5033862" data-attributes="member: 9254">Ummm, what? Maybe in SW but not Shadowrun.&nbsp; If someone made a character with no skills outside of the matrix it was the players fault, not the system.&nbsp; SR doesn't have class skills or even classes.&nbsp; The only exception were Magical skills, that required spending build points to have Magic.&nbsp; But barring that, any character could have any skill and any of them could be maxed, to the limit of build points.Yeah, most people tend to overspecialize but that's seems to be some deep psychological craving in most gamers to be the BESTEST EVAR in their self-defined role at the expense of flexibility.&nbsp; Which does argue towards a silo system to ensure people don't go to extremes, but that is more to protect players from themselves than from a freeform system like Shadowrun.I generally prefer to simply let players grow up and mature some by being bored at the table and encourage their next character to be more rounded.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kigmatzomat, post: 5033862, member: 9254"] Ummm, what? Maybe in SW but not Shadowrun. If someone made a character with no skills outside of the matrix it was the players fault, not the system. SR doesn't have class skills or even classes. The only exception were Magical skills, that required spending build points to have Magic. But barring that, any character could have any skill and any of them could be maxed, to the limit of build points. Yeah, most people tend to overspecialize but that's seems to be some deep psychological craving in most gamers to be the BESTEST EVAR in their self-defined role at the expense of flexibility. Which does argue towards a silo system to ensure people don't go to extremes, but that is more to protect players from themselves than from a freeform system like Shadowrun. I generally prefer to simply let players grow up and mature some by being bored at the table and encourage their next character to be more rounded. [/QUOTE]

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