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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wik" data-source="post: 5877299" data-attributes="member: 40177">Okay, this is going to be a bit lengthy, but bear with me.First, skills need to be non-boolean.  What I mean by this is that they cannot just be either a flat "succeed or fail" mechanic, but have to have some degree of varying successes - critical successes and failures.  I really like savage worlds' version of this, which is simple and the concept of "raises" is perfect.  If you can trade in these degrees of success to do things, like make your skill take less time to accomplish, or have a better effect, the more the merrier.Second, I like the skills to be of two tiers.  The first tier are skills that everyone is going to take - things like perception, melee attack, or whatever else.  The second tier of skills are things that round out your character and are useful only in certain situations (hacking, bribery, etc).  By doing this, it lets you make those cool forger characters without being totally gimped at doing the things that the game revolves around.Third, I like games that have a quick and easy skill system - no looking at a table to find the DC for the check, no applying fiddly +1 or +2 modifiers, or any of that BS.  Something quick that the GM can throw at the group without having to fiddle with the book.  And no having skills that have uses set in stone - I don't care if the book says you can use intimidate to terrify bloodied enemies... you're not using that skill on the iron golem!Fourth, extended skill tests are a great feature of games that have them, and I wish we saw them more often.  Essentially, a way to use skills over a period of time that doesn't hinge on one success.  Shadowrun does this - you have a certain number of successes, and each success brings down the craft or repair time by a certain incrememnt of time.  Love it.</blockquote>

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