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It has been about 15-16 business days since I have placed this order and it has still not shipped out. I noticed that another one of the products in this order (kobold raiders) has moved to the currently unavailable status. I was wondering if this was holding up the order. If so, then please delete it because I believe it needs to be deleted either way.

Thank You.

I have 3 emails out to you guys with no response. One from June 23, June 27, and yesterday.

Also order #966852 appears it should have been sent by now. The order was placed on June 14th and at the time of the order the most any product said was 11 days before it was shipped.

Sometimes I see certain posts and other times I do not. Recent ones seem to be popping in and out.

Post counts do not reflect what is actually in the thread. Both directions for that one. Some say there are more posts and you can not see them and earlier today the post counts were far behind how many posts there actually were.

Does this mean some posts are going to be lost? I hope not because I am trying to do a small consolidation thread. I will stop for now hoping it will fix itself.

In the keep skill points thread and various other skill threads everyone has a concern about the new skill system and picking classes. The big one being that taking rogue at first level is so hard to resist. Mainly this is because you max out your skills through all 20 of your levels even if you never take the rogue class again.

There are other troubling variations to this issue as well that I am sure people will chime in about.

This thread is to figure out solutions to this dilema as they relate to the new skill system. This thread is not how to do this with skill points. There are many other threads about how to change skill points to everyones liking.

My weak attempt at a solution was posted earlier in another thread.

The option below might be overkill for taking rogue at first level delema just to get skills, it will help with other things as well.

In True20 they have a mechanic called conviction that works similar to action points, but allows you to do more things with. Each role has a specific ability that only they can use with conviction. You only get the ability for the role you pick at first level, so if you multi-role you do not get the abilities for conviction from every role you go into.

Could we do something similar to that with each class? Each class have a core ability or two that can only be gained by taking that class at first level. If you multi-class into that class you do not get it, but of course you would get all the other abilities of that class except the core ones. So when you take rogue at first level and then take other classes later, at the core you are a rogue who happens to have a few abilities of other classes.

The core abilities would have to be fairly powerful/useful for this to work and not detract to much from the others abilities you could gain from multi-classing into. Enough so that your first level choice is important and not because you are trying to min/max or make some certain build that is optimal.

What does everyone think about that? Of course the reasoning for this delves into to issues not related to skills as well.

I think I had another potential solution posted somewhere else and I will try to find it.

This can be found on p.14.

I do like the rouge talents, but I do not like the rouges getting access to spells even a couple minor ones. I do not think the Rouge class should have available to it some innate magical abilities like the Sorcerer or Gnome.

While this might be too powerful of a rouge talent maybe something along the lines of a rouge being able to get an automatic check if they come within 5 ft. of a trap; something like Elves get for secret doors.

You can include my dislike of the advanced talent, dispelling attack, for the rouge as well.

I just started taking a deeper look at this book. I like what I have read so far.

I have got to the Heights district and have a couple of issues with the map. I see two H15 on the map and can not seem to find H3 or H5. I may be blind though. ;)

That is all for now. There will probably be more, but I hope not.

EDIT: I am talking about the big fold out map not the small maps in the book. While the maps in the book are very useful you can get more detailed information about exactly where things are on the fold out map.

This order shipped either 8/2 or 8/3 and I have still not received it. Sent an email on 9/1 and 9/7, but I have not received an email response back.