Divine Social Skill Advancement

However, I would remove the word trained from the language, in southernkisses version, so that you can pick up new social skills or knowledge skills. While there may not be a lot of social skills there are a lot of knowledge skills.

I strongly oppose the idea of letting them take new skills with this advance. There are already other ways to add skills. Part of the reason that the advancement is currently limited to the Arcanum + 2 skills is how powerful/useful the Arcanum skill is. I am willing to agree to bring the Arcane and Divine skill options in line with the Martial and Experts one. I’m not in favor of making them the best skill advancement option though.

With a sweep of his hat,

Paul

I honestly don’t think the power of the arcanum skill has anything to do with it, or at least shouldn’t. Casters have the arcanum skill to raise just like martial raise their combat skills and experts raise whatever they want. It’s the key to their abilities.

For casters in combat both their melee and their ranged attacks all run off the same skill. For any physical combatant doing both ranged and melee is already a minimum of 2 skills. It is a stronger single skill.

With a sweep of his hat,

Paul

But no more important to them than combat skills are to martial.

I agree on importance, my comment was that it’s stronger. Let’s say the passive logic value is 3. With the proposed change, the casting archetypes can advance 5 skills at 3 ranks / tier outside of their combat skill. A physical combatant can advance 4 skills at 3 ranks / tier outside of the 2 combat skills needed for melee and ranged combat. The Arcanum skill is also useful out of combat depending on the spells. It’s a 2+ skills for 1 trade off. It’s stronger.

As I stated, I’d be ok with bringing the advancement in line with the others assuming they’re combined. From a consistency standpoint for advancements it fits better.

With a sweep of his hat,

Paul