Perk Limit

[malloyd]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

If you can just take them as one of your 1/25 total character points Perks instead, how is the 1/20 of Combat Skills even really a limit? Except in the unlikely event you already have 6+ perks and want more?

Because you do want more. There are lots of quite useful perks out there, many of which specialize by skill (and so fill a lot of slots if you want them for multiple skills). It's not hard to come up at least one per good skill your character has that would make sense.