Published by Anonymous on 2/26/2004 05:56:00 PM
I'm with Caroline on altering Skill Focus. This is a common rule in many other D20 games, why it wasn't made official in 3.5 is beyond me. (edit. After checking the 3.5 rulebook it was. no wonder it was beyond me)
As it stands, Skill Focus is even more useless than Endurance or Toughness since pretty much any skill you might wish to take has been covered by one of those +2/+2 feats by now. Another option I've seen in house rules and other d20 rulesets make it +1 (or even +2) ranks in the skill. These ranks can exeed the normal maximum ranks for your character level in most examples I've seen.
As it stands, Skill Focus is even more useless than Endurance or Toughness since pretty much any skill you might wish to take has been covered by one of those +2/+2 feats by now. Another option I've seen in house rules and other d20 rulesets make it +1 (or even +2) ranks in the skill. These ranks can exeed the normal maximum ranks for your character level in most examples I've seen.