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<blockquote data-quote="Furn_Darkside" data-source="post: 177897" data-attributes="member: 210">Pardon my absurd moment...Yeah, how dare someone with an exceptional/rare physical attribute (20 dex) who has spent their young life training hard at a particular skill (4 ranks in Hide) that relates to that attribute.. how dare they be better at it then anyone else?!Why should an adventurer be any better at anything then the street sweeper down the lane?I suggest you put in a house rule that anyone who has high stats in your campeign is forced to do something to counter it. Perhaps people with high dex are forced to wear lead boots, of varying weight, until they have an equivilant to a 10 Dex. With only a 10 Int in play, most classes will have an average amount of skill points. And, haha, with such low stats- those elitist spell casters won't be able to cast spells that non-casters can't cast. This is just a side bonus- but while we are dealing with this skill problem, we might as well nail this problem as well.To be fair though, there are people who are below average in attributes- and it would be costly to raise them to average. So, I think it would be only fair to lower everyone to an 8 in every stat.&nbsp;So.. skill focus is too powerful?Someone spending a rare feat to get a bonus to one (or two) skill is overpowered?&nbsp;I had not considered it before, but when I hear a professional musician with a lot of talent play a Stradivari violin.. well.. it is really offensive that they are producing good music on a regular basis.FD</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Furn_Darkside, post: 177897, member: 210"] [b]Pardon my absurd moment...[/b] Yeah, how dare someone with an exceptional/rare physical attribute (20 dex) who has spent their young life training hard at a particular skill (4 ranks in Hide) that relates to that attribute.. how dare they be better at it then anyone else?! Why should an adventurer be any better at anything then the street sweeper down the lane? I suggest you put in a house rule that anyone who has high stats in your campeign is forced to do something to counter it. Perhaps people with high dex are forced to wear lead boots, of varying weight, until they have an equivilant to a 10 Dex. With only a 10 Int in play, most classes will have an average amount of skill points. And, haha, with such low stats- those elitist spell casters won't be able to cast spells that non-casters can't cast. This is just a side bonus- but while we are dealing with this skill problem, we might as well nail this problem as well. To be fair though, there are people who are below average in attributes- and it would be costly to raise them to average. So, I think it would be only fair to lower everyone to an 8 in every stat. So.. skill focus is too powerful? Someone spending a rare feat to get a bonus to one (or two) skill is overpowered? I had not considered it before, but when I hear a professional musician with a lot of talent play a Stradivari violin.. well.. it is really offensive that they are producing good music on a regular basis. FD [/QUOTE]

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