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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 3734389" data-attributes="member: 172">Ah... now we are getting somewhere. THAT is an aspect of the system that, AFAIAC, is most singularly responsible for the skill system being under-utilized in 3e and that is worthy of addressing. Many characters should have more skill points, particularly those at the low end of the scale.Once again, I am going to have to insist this is incorrect, having seen many non-D&D adventures (and even a few D&D adventures) over the year that do just that.After all, your skill points have to go somewhere. If you design the skill based challenges such that:1) having the requisite skill level is more helpful than essential (I emphasized this point in the post you quoted, but there it is again.) and/or2) a given task has multiple skills that can accomplish it (for example, getting through a door might be accomplished by sneaking in after a legitimate visitor, picking the lock, intimidating a merchant with the key, or bluffing a guard), and/or3) different DCs provide different levels of success and benefit from different skills levels...then not is the writing of such adventures possible, I can point to many actual examples where such adventures actually exist.</blockquote>