Editing Truenamer (section)

==Why this?==

Truenamer's mechanics aren't entirely wholecloth. It has its roots in, of all things, [[Star Wars D20]]'s force system where force powers were all ''separate'' skills and needed random dice rolls to work. While this didn't have the constantly increasing skill checks, it did eat your hit points. Unlike Truenamer, that was worth dealing with because, despite how much of a clusterfuck it was, it was far more powerful than what non-force classes got. Ditching this sytem was one of the many changes Saga Edition made, replacing it with a much easier system of per-encounter uses with power determined by roll of a single Use the Force skill.

It's also believed that the aforementioned issue of DCs increasing faster than the player's natural bonuses was a testbed for how these things functioned in [[4e]], where things like the AC and attack rolls of monsters increase at a faster rate than the player's natural attack bonuses and AC, necessitating the use of feats, magic items, and special abilities to remain on par with them. The difference being, of course, that 4e was designed with this mindset from the ground up, rather than bolting it onto a system with a very different ethos.