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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 8011095" data-attributes="member: 16814">First, it's worth noting that the 5e rules do not have skill checks, they have ability check to which you can add a proficiency bonus if trained in an applicable skill and the GM approves.  In other words, you don't make an athletics check, you make a STR check to which you add your proficiency bonus if trained in athletics.That said, what you're proposing removes the general 1 of 6 choice the GM makes when adjudicating an action that is uncertain and exchanging it for a 1 of many more choice.  This means the GM has a higher mental overhead in play.  Further, the skill list as it stands is not very robust -- there's many action declarations that don't fit into a skill very well but still clearly belong to an attribute.  So, this approach would probably mean expanding, and tracking, additional skills to paper over those gaps.Finally, such a change would invalidate compatibility with published 5e products.  A GM doing this would have to hack a lot of the material to align the systems.  Monster stat blocks, for instance, all are based on abilities.  This is a huge amount of work just to make using the optional multiclass rules a bit more flexible.  Why not, instead, approach it as removing the multi-class ability score requirements?  If you ask me, they're a throwback to earlier rulesets and not well justified.  Nothing breaks if you remove them.</blockquote>