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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ruemere" data-source="post: 5423337" data-attributes="member: 5515">(advice: avoid posting when you have fever)Written in response to my post:GM's chief benefit of the new system is that creating NPCs got much faster:- primary skill bonus? NPC level + 3 + Skill Focus (if any) + ability bonusIn theory only. In practice creating on the spot multiclassed characters made the calculation prone to mistakes. Additionally, use of a system with states [1] increases chance of errors.The synergies added to confusion.3.x skill woes:- players hunted for best class dipping options (to get class skills cheaply),- since the cost of skills relied on class used, it was easy to make mistakes, - reverse engineering WotC and 3rd party sources reveals that similar problems plagued all products (with an possible exception of John Cooper's version of monsters)- if you allowed new skill synergies (or new classes, from beyond initial core) everything got much, much worse. To check stats you needed to build a pile of books and hunt for skill lists.Now, you could run a freeform game, with stuff conjured out of nothingness, but then you would have to be prepare for your players to be unhappy with GM's playing a different system, not to mention accusations of not being an impartial judge, calling you a cheater behind your back and so on.Honesty and trust are things too precious to stake here [2].And here is another <a href="http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/glossary.html" target="_blank">nice bit</a> on Pathfinder skill system:Regards,Ruemere[1] System states: the system output depends on both input and current state of the system. [2] Obligatory disclaimer: 4E provides two different systems for participants. While they are being different, they are presented in less ambiguous way, and while I do not like the game experience (or GM's side of the things), use of a different system by GM does not constitute cheating.  IMHO.</blockquote>

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