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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 329694" data-attributes="member: 1645">Tri-Stat Silver Age Sentinels' skill system gives each skill a cost, per level, in skill points.  That cost depends on how useful the skill is, in game.  Thus, a combat skill like Ranged Defense might cost 12 skill points per level, while a challenging real-world skill like Writing might cost 1 skill point per level.Skills only go up to level 5, giving +5 to the appropriate Stat when that skill's involved.  I suppose this limits abuse potential, given their low overall cost, but this means that talent overwhelms training.But wait, 12 skill points per level is a low cost?  Yes, because those are skill points, not character points.  In effect, a skill point is a tenth of a character point, and, thus, a level of Ranged Defense only costs 1.2 character points -- appropriate since a level of Defense Combat Mastery, usable against all attacks, costs 2 character points.  Every character starts with 30 skill points.  Extra skill points cost 1 character point for 10 skill points -- in the form of one level of the Highly Skilled Attribute.  Fewer skills give one bonus point per 10 skill points traded in -- in the form of the Unskilled Defect.I like the way the system guides players toward a reasonable number of skills -- you get 30 skill points, and you have to make an effort to take a Defect to get your character points back if you want fewer skills -- but I'm not sure I see the need for multiple kinds of points for character building.</blockquote>

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