Synergy, Whats the Deal?

[Studpuffin]

Now that a rank system is back in place for the skills, did synergy return as well?

What's the deal?

[cricket23]

Studpuffin wrote:

Now that a rank system is back in place for the skills, did synergy return as well?

What's the deal?

I dont know, but nowhere in alpha 2 does it -remove- synergy bonuses, and it does note that the skill system is otherwise unchanged, so i guess they're in?

Can we get some clarification on this point?

[Mosaic]

As far as I know, they're gone. Alpha2 strips out anything that fiddles with the calculating of skill ranks. The hope is that this makes it easier for DMs to create high-level NPCs without worry about where all the little + and - come from. That's why cross-class skills are handles so much differently as well; now they're just non-class skill and cost the same as class skills. Instead of messing with different costs and max ranks, class skills get a simple bonus int he skill check formula.

In case you're interested, I posted a way to include synergy in Pathfinder that, I believe, keeps with the spirit or the new system. Here's the link.