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<blockquote data-quote="ZombieRoboNinja" data-source="post: 6084303" data-attributes="member: 54843">This is why people say fighters can't have nice things. Your goal is a SYSTEM-WIDE mechanical preference (fewer skills per character), but you're only specifically applying that preference to the fighter, because the fighter is such a broad concept that no one skill seems &quot;required&quot; in the way that Knowledge: Arcana is &quot;required&quot; to be a wizard.If the broke down the fighter into a bunch of better-defined sub-classes, like Soldier, Brute, Mercenary, Bounty Hunter, etc., you'd probably be fine with each of those classes starting with one free skill too.I'd say that in this case, class balance trumps &quot;fewer skills&quot; as a design concern, and if every other class gets 1-4 bonus skills, fighters and barbarians should get at least one as well. While there is no one skill that every fighter needs, each individual fighter probably has at least one extra skill that's well-suited to his style.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ZombieRoboNinja, post: 6084303, member: 54843"] This is why people say fighters can't have nice things. Your goal is a SYSTEM-WIDE mechanical preference (fewer skills per character), but you're only specifically applying that preference to the fighter, because the fighter is such a broad concept that no one skill seems "required" in the way that Knowledge: Arcana is "required" to be a wizard. If the broke down the fighter into a bunch of better-defined sub-classes, like Soldier, Brute, Mercenary, Bounty Hunter, etc., you'd probably be fine with each of those classes starting with one free skill too. I'd say that in this case, class balance trumps "fewer skills" as a design concern, and if every other class gets 1-4 bonus skills, fighters and barbarians should get at least one as well. While there is no one skill that every fighter needs, each individual fighter probably has at least one extra skill that's well-suited to his style. [/QUOTE]

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