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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Anubis the Doomseer" data-source="post: 1316622" data-attributes="member: 12455">Kemrain - I suggest you take a look at what I wrote about how to do skill boosts in the game, because I think it would work quite well with the sort of game you and e1ven are describing.  The ignored ancestor of the ideas is Rolemaster which had some pretty nice ideas about skill magic (even though, obviously, I'm not drawing on it for anything beyond the concept).In general magic should give a nice, temporary, boost.  Lowlevel magic would give minor boosts, OR decent (for low level) boosts that are useful in only a number of situations.  Higher level magic would expand the bonuses and the difference between the two would collapse.Here's part three: high (level 4,7 and possibly epic) spells that allow you to Take 10/20 in more circumstances.  At level 4 it would allow the caster to Take 10 at any time, possibly as a free action, even if the situation would normally deny the user the ability to Take 10 on the skill.  Level 7 would give the user the ability to Take 10 no matter what, even in the face of failure.  Another use (or another spell entirely) would allow the user to Take 20, but in less required time (say, you can Take 20 but the amount of time is only equal to a Take 10).A lesser spell (level 2?) would allow you to make a skill roll (unmodified) in any skill that is "trained-only" use.  You effectively, and for the duration only, act as if you had a phantom "1 rank" in the particular skill.  The next spell in this chain would do the same but maybe allow for a minor boost (say +1 bonus per 3 levels).This way a skill mage has a number of spells that actively enhance certain skills, change how they use those skills, and generally give a more "magical" feel to their using of skills.  It doesn't break the balance because obviously you are devoting more and more levels of Wizard to the acquiring these spells, and Wizards do not get the healthy amount of skill points per level that a Rogue would get.  So maybe 2-3 times per day the skillmage/rogue would be better than a normal rogue at a certain task, but overall the pure rogue would have the better skill ranks all the time.</blockquote>

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