hmm... an interesting idea to be sure, but I have to wonder just how these skill trees would work out. So long as it's not too complicated, the EVO and skill points system should work out rather effectively, though one of the most basic forum RP lessons that can be learned here is to keep it simple. Anything too complicated, and people will eventually lose interest and fall out.<br/><br/>Now, on to a more structured system, like anything involving Dice and rolls, I think to be a terrible idea. Maybe it's just a personal run of bad luck, but I find any sort of system that relies on rolls and stats to play out it's events to be disgustingly restrictive. They typically do not work because the medium of forum RPs is naturally canted to writing and storytelling, not rolling a dice and recording stats the same way that you would with a tabletop game. The moment that you let dice start to tell a story for you and dictating what you write, you lose one of the greatest benefits and strengths of the forum medium, and the people who are defeated because they got screwed by internet dice rolls will resent the game because of that. Besides, introducing a system like that also gives the problem of "Um... yeah, totally rolled a 17 there, nope, didn't re-roll that several times at all... just look at my quote and believe me, critical hit bitches."<br/><br/>Again... maybe it is just my own run of bad luck with system games talking, but I can't stand them.<br/><br/>TL;DR, I like the Evo point system, but I don't like the suggestion for pure, dice based, systems to take the place of freeform writing.<br/><br/>PS: Oh, and by the way, hi guys! I'm the fire gym dude that has never said anything in any of the threads before now. Nice to meet you.