Just playing Devils Advocate.
If the Move Silently skill etc has been added to give high level thieves something to add skill points to, well....
Taking a brand new game with an Elven pure thief and then assigning skill points. The first thing to bear in mind is "what is his thieving cap" in any given proficiency?
As you can assign more than 200 points to a skill this begs the questions - what is the maximum assignable points level for that skill and how does that correlate to a percentage success rate. I mean - Does 200 points in a given skill = a 50% chance of success or is it more or less or what?
What constitutes a really good high level thief? Should a really good pure thief be adept in all or some thieving skills? Personally I'd have thought it important to be skilled in all the things that you can assign points to and for the specialized thief types then they obviously gain advantages and disadvantages in their chosen areas. A pure thief has devoted his life to learning all the thievery skills.
Ok, we now have a level 7 thief with 60 points of innate ability and 215 points to dish out. There are 7 thief skills that we can assign skill points to. Taking 200 as the skill cap (which we know it isn't, it's higher) this gives us 1400 points of thief skills to use to become a "Master" or "Grand Master Thief".
Subtracting our initial score still leaves us with 1125 skill points available. Even at 30 points per level per level up, a level 27 thief has only used 875 skill points.
Given that the skill cap is higher than 200 it becomes even more difficult to know where to assign points to for the best.
What would be considered a "high level" for a thief anyway. I think it's all very well being given the places to assign points to but it would be even handier being given the points to assign. (Even handier still if the manual actually described the attributes in some detail
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As I say, I'm not griping, just playing Devils Advocate.
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