Pitheco: sorry, this didn't quite click with me when you first brought it up, but your DD-style hotbar idea would be great - and Larian's obviously had experience implementing it before. I was sort of going in that direction when I said a few posts earlier that clicking on a single hotbar slot should bring up the related skill category within the main skill menu, but your idea is less redundant with the existing skill menu, and also more elegant IMO. Nice one!