Originally Posted by
Satinavian
Every single version of D&D has an utterly horrible skill system. Yes, 3.x+Pf are bad with making DCs and giving meaning to those rising skill level. And that is without considering nonsense like "average humans have only one level and thus only 1-4 skill points". But 5E basically gave up and uses lolrandom for everything with the DM supposed to restrict rolling to cases where randomness makes sense. It's only slightly better than one of those cointoss systems.
Nearly every RPG system with a heavy skill systems does it better. Splittermond, TDE, SR (barely), Gurps, SIFRP ...