>At 10:02 AM 2/7/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>>To an extent, if you use 10, it doesn't matter what you pick to
>>augment, because you almost always get +1. If you use 8, then there
>>are more choices available (or at least more creativity required as
>>you figure out how to justify your skill that's 17 rather than one
>>that's 13).
>
>I myself have debated using 8, and the only real reason is that it's
>"harder to divide by 8 than 5."
>That seems pretty flimsy, and the 2nd ed may well have 8 in the end.
>
I had thought of using +1 at 10 with an extra plus 1 for every 5.
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