Mobility Bonus

[TheMatt]

...is easy to forget. Perhaps might be better to make it an ability, rather than part of a skill? ('Anything non-standard is an ability'). Or made to be more obvious on the character sheet. Reducing the ranks might also be worthwhile, as people are playing at lower skillcaps than in days of yore. As is, it's not really relevant content.

[TheMatt]

...which suggests an entire class of 'skill abilties', ie abilities whose pre-req is a certain number of ranks in a given skill. ...But what, then, does the base skill do? ...And who remembers penalties?...Which suggests a game where it is the DM's job to remember penalties...