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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wulf Ratbane" data-source="post: 485339" data-attributes="member: 94">I am not familiar with ability focus, but as to the rest, there's a balance issue. +2 to a skill is not equivalent to +2 to a save, +2 to your spell DC's, or to your spell penetration. (Well, maybe spell penetration...)Actually, I was deliberately non-specific. As written there is nothing in the rule that allows you to exceed that limit. I concede that it is easily read that way, and I further admit that I am comfortable letting the individual DM decide.They all felt as you did-- that it must somehow be broken. When pressed on the issue, nobody could point to a problem. We'll discuss...I would say that if you have a prestige class whose entry requirements are based on a single skill, such that it can be overcome with one feat, that's a broken PrC. I'd call that an interesting fighter. He has defined an interesting fighting style for himself reminiscent of a gladiator. And he spent a feat to do it; good job for him. He doesn't have Great Cleave yet, or Weapon Focus, because he spent that feat on 2 ranks of Bluff, but to each his own.And you think it's worth a feat to get skill synergies at 1st level instead of 2nd level? You think that getting those synergies at 1st level is going to break your game?Well, I don't think it's broken, but I would say it goes a lot farther towards breaking the class/cross-class skill delineation you were heralding earlier.That's basically where we netted up in playtesting.Wulf</blockquote>

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