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<blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 8187455" data-attributes="member: 6785785">It does have to be bonuses because that's the way the game works. The game says &quot;here is the way to be good at something&quot; and that way is to have the highest bonus to your roll. The game does not give you any other way to be good at something. There may be some ways of which I'm unaware.....I know that the options for 3.5 kept rolling well after I stopped buying books, and that Pathfinder went even further with it. But from what I recall, whoever in the group has a higher bonus in something, they are the best at it.The only alternatives would seem to me that A) the party lets me roll the Intimidate checks because it suits my character, even though he's mechanically weaker at it than another character, or B) for the GM to apply some kind of benefit for the Barbarian character that wouldn't apply to the Bard. With A) my character is actively reducing the chance at success for the group, and B) seems to very much go against the codified approach that this edition has. Are these what you have in mind for playstyle choices?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hawkeyefan, post: 8187455, member: 6785785"] It does have to be bonuses because that's the way the game works. The game says "here is the way to be good at something" and that way is to have the highest bonus to your roll. [B]The game does not give you any other way to be good at something. [/B] There may be some ways of which I'm unaware.....I know that the options for 3.5 kept rolling well after I stopped buying books, and that Pathfinder went even further with it. But from what I recall, whoever in the group has a higher bonus in something, they are the best at it. The only alternatives would seem to me that A) the party lets me roll the Intimidate checks because it suits my character, even though he's mechanically weaker at it than another character, or B) for the GM to apply some kind of benefit for the Barbarian character that wouldn't apply to the Bard. With A) my character is actively reducing the chance at success for the group, and B) seems to very much go against the codified approach that this edition has. Are these what you have in mind for playstyle choices? [/QUOTE]

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