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Originally Posted by Anaraxes
(Editorializing, that house rule seems to take out a large part of the point of DA. One of the main purposes of that rule is to let high-skill attackers become able to hit high-skill defenders, and a cap defeats that purpose. Combats are likely to revert to the old problem of nothing being able to penetrate defenses until someone happens to crit.)
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Yes, DA was added in 4th edition to allow high skilled characters bypass high defenses. A big problem in 3rd edition was that above a certain skill level you got very little help from higher skill. Having such house rule just shifts the limit bit higher leaving the base problem from 3rd edition.
In my current game the characters currently often do -11/-12 to defense deceptive attacks(-22/-24 skill) with occasional forays up to -14 with things like heroic feats.