| EKB |
Let me add my vote to please retain skill points. Fix them, yes, but keep them.
I'll admit, though, that there seem to be two schools of thought wrt skills that dated back to 3.0: The "skills are an important way to customize and empower a character, and skill points are necessary for this" school (to which I belong), and the "skills are just feat-like proficiencies, and skill points are just a useless complication" school (which both 4E and Pathfinder seem to be following).
My own druthers for skill points would be:
o Give more of them; +2 per level across the board wouldn't be too much
o Reduce the penalty for taking cross-class skills. Maybe just put a lower cap on cross-class skills or maybe even eliminate them entirely.
o Fix the starting allotment so that it doesn't matter which class a multiclass character takes first
o Streamline multiclass skill points so that a character doesn't have to keep track of each class's skill points separately (e.g. a fighter/rogue won't have to keep track of "fighter" skill points vs "rogue" skill points - he can just buy his skills from a single pool of skill points.)