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Originally Posted by awesomenessofme1
That's a fair point, though I personally would be willing to allow a character to reshuffle points within Dabbler (only in the same skills, though) if they bought actual points in it (or in this case if a skill became invalid), and eventually convert it into a skill point if they improved all of them.
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Reshuffling the points is fine.
Dabbler is best understood as "fractional points" in the skills it includes, and not as "increased defaults". I'm pretty sure it's phrased the way it is to avoid introducing actual fractional points into the rules, where it is would become a precedent for Munchkins insisting they no longer needed to round to whole numbers of points when using the Modifiers rules. People sometimes did argue over rounding rules about in 3e, which did allow 1/2 points in skills. Not that 4e actually fixed all the sloppy wordings that have provoked rounding debates, but it at least tried to clean them up and avoid adding new ones.
If you think of Dabbler as having 8 skills with 1/8th of a point spent on them, then if you spend a point on one of them, you only need 7/8 of it to reach the 1 point level, leaving you with 1/8 of a point left over to spend on something to replace it in the Dabbler perk.