I know in advance that this may be a question you won't answer due to your "I don't answer 'why' questions" policy, but this seems so counter-intuitive that I need to at least pose the question...
In a previous post, you said that allowing five point skill levels to improve the rolls of all INT-based skills, including Background Skills (i.e.; AK, PS, and SS), would be "unbalancing"; but couldn't those same five points be spent to increase the character's INT by an equivalent amount, giving the character the same +1 to all INT-based skills (including all those Background Skills) anyway? Where is the imbalance? By not allowing the 5-point skill to improve Background Skill rolls, isn't that just encouraging stat inflation?
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I know in advance that this may be a question you won't answer due to your "I don't answer 'why' questions" policy, but this seems so counter-intuitive that I need to at least pose the question...
In a previous post, you said that allowing five point skill levels to improve the rolls of all INT-based skills, including Background Skills (i.e.; AK, PS, and SS), would be "unbalancing"; but couldn't those same five points be spent to increase the character's INT by an equivalent amount, giving the character the same +1 to all INT-based skills (including all those Background Skills) anyway? Where is the imbalance? By not allowing the 5-point skill to improve Background Skill rolls, isn't that just encouraging stat inflation?
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