Tweaking the 3.5 skill system

fectin · Post by **fectin** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 12:59 am

You could also hand out a swim speed equal to ranks*2.

Having bluff and sense motive separate makes for pretty good gameplay. Usually when someone maxes out just one of them.

RadiantPhoenix · Post by **RadiantPhoenix** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 1:05 am

5ft / 2 ranks is probably going to be easier to calculate for most people.

Juton · Post by **Juton** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 2:41 am

A swim speed of ranks * 2 is kind of limited. To get swim speed of 30ft you'd need 15 ranks, you'd have to be level 12. That's not really impressive for a level 12 character, at that level you should be able to do ridiculous things like hold your breath for an hour or use underwater echo location like a dolphin.

RadiantPhoenix · Post by **RadiantPhoenix** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 3:52 am

How about 5ft/rank to a limit of your base speed?

erik · Post by **erik** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 3:58 am

How about 10' + 5'/2rank with no limits? If someone goes balls to the walls on swimming, meh. Let em have some minor glory with a swim speed of 60' at level 10. No harm in that.

And if we are having movement be increased in this manner... perhaps have a Dash skill as well adding 5' to base move per 2 ranks.

Juton · Post by **Juton** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 5:04 am

Shadowrun has a 'Run' skill and I think it makes a lot of sense in 3.5. Mundanes also lack ways to increase their move speed, I don't think letting a fighter get a 60' move speed breaks the game. I really like that idea.

fectin · Post by **fectin** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 11:55 am

Juton wrote:A swim speed of ranks * 2 is kind of limited. To get swim speed of 30ft you'd need 15 ranks, you'd have to be level 12. That's not really impressive for a level 12 character, at that level you should be able to do ridiculous things like hold your breath for an hour or use underwater echo location like a dolphin.

Part of his earlier proposal was change rank limits to a flat 2*level. That means at level 5, you have swim 20, which seemed to be standard for most semi-aquatic races. Level 10 would be the max, and give you swim 40, which is moderately fast for swimming.

fectin · Post by **fectin** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 11:56 am

why not fold "run" and "jump" together? Jump's kind of worthless by itself, and running/jumping really do go together.