So what you are saying is that powerful stuff like devious versatility should be available without any rp requirement? You just write some text and later you get the skill?

To me, the fact that this stops that is the best thing about it.

My thoughts:
+ Good that it stops role xp farming.
- Not happy to see obs and explore exp reduced in usefulness. Are the caps being increased?

+ New ways of generating what's been lost.
+ Maybe coincidence, but I've recently been rewarded for stuff I'm doing rather than stuff I've written, which is a very nice change. If that's the new plan, I'm all for it. What I would say though is please make sure that people spend a bit of time watching the uncaballed or poor at pk characters too. Otherwise this will make the playing field less level (albeit to my personal benefit).