Yes, I know the thread was closed, and likely with good reason. Lord knows I was unable to slog through the entire thing.
But, in response to at least one of the points it was trying to make around it inanity (that being consolidated skills) couldn't one take a page from White Wolf in this regard? If your character takes ranks in Perception, but is focused on sight instead of listening, then you could add a parenthetical "Perception (sharp-eyed)". Perhaps that would give full ranks when used as sight-based, and a -2 or somesuch when used vs. listening or whatever?
Granted, parenthetical qualifiers might not work for all of the skills, but I figured it was a solid enough thought to suggest to one and all.
Yes, I know the thread was closed, and likely with good reason. Lord knows I was unable to slog through the entire thing.
But, in response to at least one of the points it was trying to make around it inanity (that being consolidated skills) couldn't one take a page from White Wolf in this regard? If your character takes ranks in Perception, but is focused on sight instead of listening, then you could add a parenthetical "Perception (sharp-eyed)". Perhaps that would give full ranks when used as sight-based, and a -2 or somesuch when used vs. listening or whatever?Granted, parenthetical qualifiers might not work for all of the skills, but I figured it was a solid enough thought to suggest to one and all.
Good Idea but would you work this into class features or feats. Either choice would be intersting, though spending feats in this case might be asking a lot for a feat heavy system such as 3.P On the other had I can see this given freely for rogues. I'm assuming the -2 would be for DC, one could also make a distiction between good human hearing and the sent ablity, giving sent a +10 so animals and perhapes Barbarian (as a power) a cool edge.
Good Idea but would you work this into class features or feats. Either choice would be intersting, though spending feats in this case might be asking a lot for a feat heavy system such as 3.P On the other had I can see this given freely for rogues. I'm assuming the -2 would be for DC, one could also make a distiction between good human hearing and the sent ablity, giving sent a +10 so animals and perhapes Barbarian (as a power) a cool edge.Yes, I know the thread was closed, and likely with good reason. Lord knows I was unable to slog through the entire thing.
But, in response to at least one of the points it was trying to make around it inanity (that being consolidated skills) couldn't one take a page from White Wolf in this regard? If your character takes ranks in Perception, but is focused on sight instead of listening, then you could add a parenthetical "Perception (sharp-eyed)". Perhaps that would give full ranks when used as sight-based, and a -2 or somesuch when used vs. listening or whatever?Granted, parenthetical qualifiers might not work for all of the skills, but I figured it was a solid enough thought to suggest to one and all.
I'd add it as a side-bar to the skills rules. It's an adjunct to the skills afterall, neither a class function for a feat function. It's just like they did in Vampire: the Masquerade with skills, where you could add notations to further clarify your particular strength of angle on that skill. Maybe you could even go further with it; stating that no parenthetical specifier gives you your rank ability, and having a parenthetical specifier gives you a +1 within the scope of the parenthetical specifier, and a -2 in all other usages of that skill. Just off the top of my head.