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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mordane76" data-source="post: 1345055" data-attributes="member: 7172">From this standpoint, cool.  I also could see this working well for using Jedi powers as well, which are also completely Skill and Feat based in acquisition.Bolded section selected by meOkay, that makes more sense, but your explanation raises a new question.  Does the bolded part mean that a 3rd level character could have a BAB +4 (which is higher than he would normally be allowed) if he was willing/able to spend 24 character points?  While this would be over half his availible character points at this level, he'd still have enough for 4d4 HD (5 points, spending 2 for that extra HD), 12 Skill points + 3 levels of Int (4 points), 2 Feats (4 points), and +3 Defense (3 points).  As a 3rd level character, this build, if my reading of your rules is right, would be legal.  It would have better average HP than a wizard (not neccessarily that great), better BAB than a Fighter of equilvalent level, a reasonable number of feats, skill points of a ranger or a barbarian of equilvalent level, and good Defense for a level equivalent character.  It would have very poor saves, though, for a character of equivalent level, so that would be the trade off.I understood this in the first read, but I still worry about this.  A character can get five skill points every level, with high Intelligence, for a miniscule investment.  Even though it only adds once in a level, it MIGHT be a good consideration not to allow it to modify skill points at all, as M&M did.  As for it being less than most regular characters get, I beg to differ -- Sorcerers, Clerics, and Fighters all get 2 + Int skill points per level.  Two of these classes are standards of D&D, thus representing probably about 35-40% of all characters made by players, and probably a higher percentage of all multiclass characters have levels in at least one of these classes.  Wizards benefit from requiring a high Int for spells, so they don't really count in this list, but Rangers, Monks, and Barbarians would also get this amount of skill points if they had a Int bonus of +1.  Only the Rogue cannot receive this number of skill points, unless they suffer from a very low Intelligence.As for another question/comment, I just thought about something.  How will your system simulate the x4 bonus on Skill Points that all characters receive in their first level class?  At present, if you have a character starting with only 10 character points, he would have 8 of them to even come close to the Rogue's number of skill points at first level, leaving him nothing for HD, saves, BAB, special abilities, or feats.</blockquote>

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