Skill Fusion

I have proposed that we fuse the skills Hide and Move Silently into Stealth, and Listen and Spot into Perception.
This will give us more skill points to work with, as well as cut down on dice rolls.

I am against this, because it changes the structure of the game somewhat and makes things more confusing. None of us need more confusion in our lives.

It's not that much confusing. It is actually less complicated, because now you don't have to keep track of two skills that are interconnected.
Of course, you could keep doing the same thing, while others don't, although that would unbalance the game...

If I keep doing the same thing and others don't, I totally get more skill points, because otherwise it would unbalance the game.

When I say confusing, I'm talking about the confusion on the character sheet, not during the game.

And the skills are not the same. Someone with keen ears who is a practiced listener is not necessarily skilled at seeing stuff.

Yes, but the skill checks are so often made together, so that it would make it more efficient.
And just cross out Hide and put Stealth, then Spot for Perception.

Of course, certain campaigns can use the fusions, while others don't.
I will use it, but other campaigns don't need to.

I think we shouldn't merge skill at all and this guy agrees -->

I don't want to play a campaign that uses skill fusion, at least with these skills.

Maybe we'll just leave it. But the issue is, I built my character for Linden's campaign with the skill fusions.
So I'll have to ask him about it.