The Drunken Lizard Pub

He'll be able to train to 5, hopefully, right? I guess that works, actually. Sounds like a reasonable tradeoff.

I think that if it had a total of 5 levels or something, and you got a bigger increase per skill point, that'd work just fine. Sounds reasonable to me.

I'm not opposed to there being a minimap. I just hate the idea that I have to invest skill points, which I could be spending on things to keep me alive, on the skill that fills the map in. Especially when making a viable character requires the sort of trickery that these games do.

I'm not here to ...

If cartography is a skill in the 3rd game, I won't buy it. Otherwise, I probably will. There's really only a certain amount of crap you can get away with before it becomes apparent that you hate your players. Requiring the waste of 5 skill points before you can get two crayons so you can draw land ...