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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 9276601" data-attributes="member: 20323">Interesting approach! I have three thoughts...1) I love the idea of sub-skills and the extra flavor that injects! Some of your subskills are awesome, while others are harder to parse... Insight is one that that I had trouble differentiating Empathy, Familiarity, Humanoids, Intuition, Protocol, and Tact. I also think you may be butting against the &quot;Favored Enemy&quot; problem with some of your subskills in that they'll become very contingent on what the GM presents. Since this is your house system and you can tailor things to your players, less of an issue, but something to be aware of.2) The jump from Proficiency to Expertise seems much less significant than the jump from Expertise to Mastery. Just to evaluate things on a 1-to-10 scale. If Untrained is 1, Proficiency is 3, Expertise is 5, then Mastery is 10. I'm not sure if that's intended or not, but it's what I noticed.3) Obviously you have a strong view on removing the siloing of combat vs. noncombat skills, which may tie into other parts of your homebrew. That's personally not for me, but if your players are into it then could be an interesting approach.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 9276601, member: 20323"] Interesting approach! I have three thoughts... 1) I [I]love[/I] the idea of sub-skills and the extra flavor that injects! Some of your subskills are awesome, while others are harder to parse... Insight is one that that I had trouble differentiating Empathy, Familiarity, Humanoids, Intuition, Protocol, and Tact. I also think you may be butting against the "Favored Enemy" problem with some of your subskills in that they'll become very contingent on what the GM presents. Since this is your house system and you can tailor things to your players, less of an issue, but something to be aware of. 2) The jump from Proficiency to Expertise seems much less significant than the jump from Expertise to Mastery. Just to evaluate things on a 1-to-10 scale. If Untrained is 1, Proficiency is 3, Expertise is 5, then Mastery is 10. I'm not sure if that's intended or not, but it's what I noticed. 3) Obviously you have a strong view on removing the siloing of combat vs. noncombat skills, which may tie into other parts of your homebrew. That's personally not for me, but if your players are into it then could be an interesting approach. [/QUOTE]

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