[DF] Maximum Skill Levels?

[Peter V. Dell'Orto]

Originally Posted by Kuroshima

Caps are an interesting tool for the GM, because IME, they tend to make people try and reach the cap, even if they would otherwise not invest that heavily in that area.

Maybe so, but I prefer to avoid the whole "I'll max out X" issue that comes with skill caps.

I do cap other things, though, so I'm not totally loose on this. I cap HP, for example. You and Kromm see an increase in ST - I see an increase in HP. Many PCs have extra HP, and more than one has increased ST to increase the cap on HP. They already have enough damage to one-shot many things, and skill enough to hit anything. Their main concern is surviving heavy hits, not being bigger cannons. I keep the HP limits because while increasing skill has its own practical limits of real utility (winning a Feint by 15 isn't much less effective than winning a Feint by 20, practically) but HPs have a linear increase in utility (better slams, better survivability, better crippling levels), and that's worth capping to me. Skills . . . not at all. Not at 4/level for a mere +1 to rolls.