Oh, I'm a skill whore. I always have been. Plunk a game setting in front of me and I guarantee that my first dozen character concepts will all be skill whores of one variety or another, and unless I'm required to take some kind of special power, odds are I'll try to cash it out and use the points to get more skills instead.
I think my normally-dormant reptile hindbrain is flooded with endorphins every time a GM says that anyone with a certain skill can roll against it, and "anyone" turns out to be me.
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sometimes i don't even bother reading the magic/powers/supernatural abilities section of a rulebook
ryan