3.5 Skill System Reform

[ericgrau]

Everytime I see it, I still think combining Listen and Spot into one skill is wrong...Your eyes and ears are not the same.

That's about all I have to say on the matter. I wish I could contribute more, but, the above posters have already done that.

The idea is that anyone who puts ranks in spots almost always puts them in listen as well, and it's a bit of an oddity for someone to be eagled eyed but not have at least somewhat keen ears. Same for a lot of the other combos, like hide & move silently. The idea is to make skills easier to deal with so that you don't have to look down a list of over 30 skills. I can see some issues with climbing, jumping and swimming being together. And putting search with spot & listen. I dunno what to do about that. Maybe it's a tradeoff, maybe it's an idea killer.