Scholars and Sleight of Hand

Of course, why would he want to spend cross-class skill points on it when he can use his bonus skill points for high intelligence?

This rule makes intelligent characters to be far more skilled, far more flexible, far more versatile, and far more likely to survive than stupid characters, who are doomed to use cross-class skill points for versatility. This rule also helps to promote real variety between two characters of the same race and the same class. I haven't found the rule to be the least bit difficult to implement.

Want your intelligent soldier to be a fantastic tower guard? Use his Intelligence bonus skill points to bump up his Spot skill! Want your intelligent barbarian to be similar to the great chiefs of the Wild West who sat in on councils and said things that were both wise and eloquent? Use the bonus points on Diplomacy. This rule really allows a player to customize their character and play something less stereotypical. Want your intelligent nomad to ask questions like, "What is best in life?", then use his bonus points in Knowledge (philosophy).

I think it is a fantastic change to the standard way Class/Cross-class skills works, and really rewards players who put high intelligences on their characters.
 
VincentDarlage said:
The rule is crystal clear, and the example backs up the rule exactly.

It was not clear to me because the wording is not clear enough and it is "totally illegal" in standard d20, so it is easy to gloss over and attribute to yet another editing snafu from the standard d20 cut and paste job, IMO. Thanks for clearing it up for me.

One of the biggest problems I have had in running Conan is all these little changes to the d20 rules that are not specifically called out in big, bold text. I was constantly getting ****ed over by these little rules tweaks as a result of assuming the standard d20 rules were generally in force. I really think sidebars specifying these changes would be greatly beneficial to new players/GMs used to running d20 in a revised edition or second printing.
 
VincentDarlage said:
Of course, why would he want to spend cross-class skill points on it when he can use his bonus skill points for high intelligence?

Because a Soldier might be lucky to get one bonus Skill Point per level, so he might be forced to use his other two skill points on cross-class skills, if he so desires. Of course, this is hardly a big issue, and nothing worth arguing over, as it is so easily avoided. :)

TTFN,

Yokiboy
 
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