Chakat Firepaw wrote:
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3. Proficiencies in skills & saves are silly.
Thog the Barbarian has trained his whole life to hit stuff. He is a level 10 Barbarian, who smash really good. Suddenly, he's put in a situation where he has to sing, despite literally having never done so in his life. He at least is getting a +8 modifier to that check from proficiency. What?
I don't see what was wrong with static base save progressions and skill points. They were actually somewhat easier to explain/more self-evident than proficiencies, and required you to actually put in training to be good at something, rather than just becoming passively good at
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I see the inherent bonuses as an attempt to offset the critical failure chance at higher levels. The barbarian should not be able to sing better than a low level bard. However with the current critical failure chance for failing high DC checks, often times doing nothing is better than trying.
I see the critical failure rules as requiring most high levels to keep up with DCs or else they fall into a doing nothing is better than attempting to help.
We had an encounter where no characters were athletic and attempted to help a drowning character. They all failed to make the basic checks and consistently made the problem worse for the drowning character. Also, an effective 1 in 6 or 7 chance of critically failing can really punish a party if multiple characters start to critically fail. We had a party all fail or critically fail to support a character falling due to a misstep while all were tied together with rope. We all tumbled off the supporting structure and almost tpk'd.
