a stealth idea

[Lotion]

this post assumes an imaginary world where skills just cap at 100

so perhaps instead of having generic sneak/hide/scan with flags it could be separated into three skills (and then listen could also be changed to be  like this)

You have three skills for each thing (using sneak as example)
SNEAK_GENERIC (caps at 50)
SNEAK_CITY (caps at 50)
SNEAK_WILD (caps at 50)

then when you sneak in a city it adds up your GENERIC and CITY skills

I am not advocating that it be split exactly 50/50, this is just an example of how it could work.

Skills I would apply this to if I was a producer who could do it:
* sneak
* hide
* scan
* listen

[Brytta Léofa]

Yes. We all love the synergy thing where you pick a city main class and a wilderness subclass (or vice versa) and get the same skill level for both (whichever was higher). But it's long overdue to go away.

[betweenford]

The synergy would still exist, Brytta. It'd just be a synergy that'd be bolstered by you training your synergy in the wild as well.

So you wouldn't have master sneak city elves with a wilderness subclass leaving the walls for the first time with master sneak, they'd still benefit from room bonuses and stuff tho.