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Thread: Random thought before sleep
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2007-01-19, 01:45 AM (ISO 8601)Bugbear in the Playground
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Random thought before sleep
Just a little thought before sleep, on making attributes a little more useful in gauging people's skills (i.e. training helps, but natural talent + training will is even better).
Option: Instead of HD +3, your maximum ranks are HD +attribute modifier. Got a negative? You can spend 1 skill point to be "trained".The Cranky Gamer
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2007-01-19, 02:47 AM (ISO 8601)Ogre in the Playground
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Re: Random thought before sleep
That's to easy to boost skills even higher then. If you max out Cha to max out bluff, then you'd be able to get a +14 at level one will skillfocus and max ranks (and that's just assuming a 18 cha). It can get even more rediculous.
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2007-01-19, 02:51 AM (ISO 8601)Ogre in the Playground
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Re: Random thought before sleep
It's a good idea in theory, but many concepts and prerequisites (especially for PrCs) are designed under the assumption that your max skill ranks is 3+character level.
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2007-01-19, 02:55 AM (ISO 8601)Ogre in the Playground
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Re: Random thought before sleep
Halfling with 20 dex (base 18 +2 racial) and a Cha of 12 could get into the Assassin PrC at level 3 instead of level 5 as normal.
Life is a gamble, roll the dice. If your life is like cards, rig the deck.
"Boy, sure would be nice if we had some grenades, don'tchya think?" -Jayne
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2007-01-19, 01:46 PM (ISO 8601)Bugbear in the Playground
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Re: Random thought before sleep
Eh, I still like the idea. Perhaps for a later edition, when PrCs can be rebalanced. Make talent count for something.
The Cranky Gamer
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*It isn't realism, it's verisimilitude; the appearance of truth within the framework of the game.
*"I" is an English pronoun in the nominative case of first person singular. It does not indicate the actions or writings of anyone but the first person, singular.
*Tataurus, you have three halves as well as a race that doesn't breed. -UglyPanda
*LVDO ERGO SVM
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2007-01-19, 01:56 PM (ISO 8601)Orc in the Playground
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Re: Random thought before sleep
I like the idea a great deal as well, but it's rough to balance with prereqs and keeping things out of the hands of 1st level noobs.
Hmm.
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2007-01-19, 02:04 PM (ISO 8601)Barbarian in the Playground
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Re: Random thought before sleep
Well if you don't mind reworking the DCs a bit, it make a whole lot more sense to me considering training is totally dependent on character class. Case in point, sorcerers. They have the same amount of skill points wizards do but way more free time according to their class description. It makes sense that a wizard doesn't have much time to waste training himself to pick locks while he's grappling with the mysteries of the universe. The sorcerer, on the other hand, is just hanging around waiting for spells to just pop into his head and has plenty of time to practice diplomacy on people for lack of anything better to do.
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