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With the changes to cross class skills you can drop one of "skill points" or "ranks". I would expect skill points can go as prestige classes always refer to ranks, and you would have better backwards compatability that way. Just have all classes get "X skill ranks per level".
Are synergy bonuses for skills gone?
Charge is still ambiguously worded. I do like the improvement to tracing a clear path from starting square to ending square, but "toward" is way too open ended when the basic grid allows for multiple paths that are the same "distance" when counting squares.
I noticed the minor changes to NPC gear earlier but missed the rather significant bumps to character wealth by level. Did I miss any discussion of this as well?
I also see some changes to the encounter building section that effectively revises monster xp to always be static. What is the reason for this change?
When calculating CR, how do class levels affect a monster that already has a base CR and monster levels? For most I can understand just using the MM CR calculation for associated and non-associated, but this seems more than a little off when considering monsters that only have 2-4 racial HD but multiple character levels. A 2HD sahuagin with 8 levels of ranger would be CR 10, the same as a 12th level ranger.