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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MoogleEmpMog" data-source="post: 3627098" data-attributes="member: 22882">The new save rules are all about making the ACTIVE character the one who rolls (and about folding AC and Reflex save into one number).  So far, both have been big improvements in play.  Nothing bogs down a game of D&D like an area effect spell, as every creature within its radius needs a save, often with different bonuses, sometimes listed in different places - and then the different numbers all have to be recorded.  With the Saga save system, the player of the active character rolls once and GM and players compare the result to static numbers.  The time savings are astonishing.The skill system is set up so that you can, in fact, be a competent skill user at 1st level, and really, really awesome by 5th or 6th.  This is a feature (allowing for skilled noncombatants and heroic savants), not a bug; the idea that a competent character should fail about 50% of the time, or that a starting hero is not competent, has been excised.I strongly recommend you play at least a few Saga sessions before houseruling.  It's a superb bit of design, and you may well find the things you want to revert to their D&D roots are some of the best aspects of the system.</blockquote>