if you have gold you can experiment, to a degree.
True, but this creates a feeling of "hey, we put in deadends, you found our errors, so now we're letting you unmake those errors--for some in-game cash." That doesn't do it, for me. Either a skill should work, and work in tandem with other skills and the surrounding environment appropriately, or it shouldn't be in a game. "Two hundred skills" means nothing. "Seventy skills that let you tailor your character anyway you want, and will let you successfully win in the game in various ways" is much, much better. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />