To Pre-Requisite or not

In developing the the skills and spells we have adopted a hierarchy approach to the skills, meaning you needed one skill before you gained another.  On the surface this seemed like an easy way to add depth to the characters.

We have found in practice that for spell casters it acts more like a penalty and for melee skills it is near useless.  So I think for melee skills it will go away and for spells it will be simplified or dropped all together.

Play testing continues and new players are showing us many holes in the system.  We have been so focused on the mechanics that we lack the breadth of skills and spells of other systems.  So the evolution continues!