I had not seen “pick your skills” until the past few years poking around the boards. No one who has played my games has expected to pick their skills (well, I suppose some might have, since my gaming is either play by post or Roll20, I don’t require people roll their characters up in front of me).

For the way I play, I don’t think I’d like having players pick skills, it would seem to lead to too much optimization.

Frank

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Rolling to determine skills is probably, in my experience anyway, one of the most ignored rules.

Just about everyone I know/knew much, much preferred to pick their skills.

Even the few Trav computer games (the MicroProse ones were my favs), let you pick skills.

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