Dr_Dinosaur
2016-03-25, 04:04 PM
Forgive me (and post a link!) if someone has already done this. A Google search turned up nothing useful.
Reading through one of the many arguments over whether the knowledge skills hurt roleplay, I noticed someone saying that if a character could "just roll to be good at everything else," why not make combat a skill? Kind of a non-sequitur, but it got me thinking. If we were to replace BAB with a 'Combat' skill, would it cause problems?
The way I see it working is that Combat is a Str skill by default, modified by things such as wielding finessable weapons to use other attributes. It is either only a class skill for full-BAB classes or both them and the 3/4 crowd but possibly do iteratives the way 5e handles it, just increasing the number of attacks possible at appropriate levels. Rolling to-hit works pretty much the same, but CMD is now 10+your total Combat bonus, making high level monsters a bit easier to use them on.
This is still just a rough idea, but I'd like to hear your thoughts.
Edit: Was thinking about 3.5's class skills when I use Pathfinder's skills.
Reading through one of the many arguments over whether the knowledge skills hurt roleplay, I noticed someone saying that if a character could "just roll to be good at everything else," why not make combat a skill? Kind of a non-sequitur, but it got me thinking. If we were to replace BAB with a 'Combat' skill, would it cause problems?
The way I see it working is that Combat is a Str skill by default, modified by things such as wielding finessable weapons to use other attributes. It is either only a class skill for full-BAB classes or both them and the 3/4 crowd but possibly do iteratives the way 5e handles it, just increasing the number of attacks possible at appropriate levels. Rolling to-hit works pretty much the same, but CMD is now 10+your total Combat bonus, making high level monsters a bit easier to use them on.
This is still just a rough idea, but I'd like to hear your thoughts.
Edit: Was thinking about 3.5's class skills when I use Pathfinder's skills.