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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Minigiant" data-source="post: 6710348" data-attributes="member: 63508">It is less about combat ability any more what a DM would allow.One DM might allow a PC to collect seeds to cure poison or sprout roots with a high Survival check. Another might say that is crazy.But if a DM were to say a high level ranger can't easily cure poison nor summon ensnaring roots/vines/branches, a D&D fan would look at them funny.As long as skills are "roll and do stuff your DM thinks are okay", the classes and class features would have to pick up the slack as definitions of the iconic actions of the game which are stated at a mutually agreed starting point and jointly adjusted or left alone as a case by case basis.TL,DR: Freeform skills means more hardwritten classes and class features.</blockquote>