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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JamesonCourage" data-source="post: 5900397" data-attributes="member: 6668292">Like I said, starting with a balance is fine. However, I do not want to be forced into competency in all three areas, much less forced into near-perfect balance. I (and my players) like incompetency in certain areas as a part of our character concepts. For us, D&D was never solely about "adventurers" doing adventurous things. The system was a tool for our favored type of RPing, and this includes non-combat sages, socialites, and the like. We play my RPG because it caters to those tastes far more than D&D did (or, at least in ways that we liked more than any edition of D&D did).I want to be able to build a character with a "1" in combat. I might want someone who has a "1" in exploration, too (or social/interaction). Most characters won't be completely incompetent in these areas, mind you, but sometimes one of us has a concept where such a thing is the case.Make it an optional rule, or a rules module, or a "clear-it-with-your-GM" thing, or whatever, but give me a system that doesn't force every character to be competent in every area. Make it the baseline? Sure. Assume it to be the case? I guess so. Balance around it? Sure, you need to start somewhere (put in a disclaimer: "if you change from these assumptions, here is the likely results in balance"). But, if we're seeing my preference come to fruition, then at least give me the option to trade competency, with all the imbalance that it entails.If my concept means I suck at combat, then I'm okay with dying in combat. If it's disruptive ("it'll get us killed! We need someone who can contribute in this combat-heavy campaign"), then give advice on only allowing it if appropriate; it's not really any different from a PC who is competent but won't fight the bad guys, or a thief who steals from the party, or an evil cleric who kills PCs that drop, or whatever. As always, play what you like <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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