> I like your idea. I would center on less skill requirements, but those less should have more ranks. At least I would enhance "sense motive" and "diplomacy", but I would drop "decipher script" and "gather information".

You know, skill requirements almost never make sense. I like the idea, but
in application they always seem artificial, because the skills are so
specific and relatively one-dimensional. Furthermore, it`s difficult to say
why you`d need one skill and not another, so usually the skills are just
chosen for their themes and flavors than for their specific value to the
character or the character`s role.

So what I`m thinking is that maybe instead of having a requirement of "X
ranks in this skill" there should be a requirement of "X ranks in this type
of skill" for prestige classes. Since skills are already divided by their
relavent ability scores this works pretty well.

I mean, really, thematically there isn`t that much different between
needing, say 5 ranks in Diplomacy and Gather Information vs needing 5 ranks
in at least two Charisma skills.

Instead of, say 5 ranks in Sense Motive, what if you just had 5 ranks in a
Wisdom-related skill? Thematically, I don`t think there`s anything wrong
with requireing Spot and Listen instead of Sense Motive, but Wilderness Lore
could be somewhat of a problem.

I would suggest grouping the skills into particular themes to fit the common
requirements for prestige classes, but the problem is that there`d be as
many themes as there are prestige classes themselves. I`ll have to think
about it a bit more.

-Lord Rahvin

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