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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 9245981">Again I think a modular optional approach is the best one here. You set the default at the most basic version of the game, and you have multiple optional rules that can be used. I point again to NWPs because those were fully optional, plenty of people didn't use them, it didn't hurt if you used them but joined a group that didn't use them, but on the whole most people I knew used them (there were however a lot of GMs and players who were adamant at the time that skills of any kind had no place in D&D). And NWPs weren't even the only skill system offered in the game. Both weapon proficiencies and non-weapon proficiencies were optional (the entire chapter is optional). In addition to NWPs, there was the option for secondary skills. And NWPs were not some minor afterthought. They covered a lot of areas of play and became something that got expanded in many of the supplementary books. Here is the list of the core NWPs in the revised version of the PHB (note I usually played using the first version of the 2E PHB not this one): [ATTACH=full]343897[/ATTACH]One thing this doesn't do is get too deep into social interaction because they were taking pains not to have anything interfere with RP. But you can easily imagine a layered social combat system presented in an optional chapter or a separate "Complete" book. But even so, there are lots of things on this list that can come up as part of social interaction</blockquote>

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