i did a quick search and found no topics mentioning this so sorry if there already is one...

From my understanding there are going to be 18 skills(3 less than oblivion)
so does that mean an attribute being knocked off too?
obviously they never mentioned anything about attributes yet but what do you think

i myself believe that if they do "merge" attributes, it'll probably be speed/agility

again if there even are attributes <.<

I have no idea, I'm honestly not that concerned, I'm hoping that if they are in, that we are done with the whole +5 +3 +2 crap, or that they are something that you pick at the beginning, and then can't alter too much in the game, like the fallout system. Alternately they could just remove them, with the way the skills work, I can't really be arsed.

ya it wound up making it feel less real with having people gauge themselves on what skills they raised that way

in fact i wouldnt mind if they took out luck and made it to where (no mater what) every level you go up, it would automatically add 3 to the governing attribute of the most raised skill, 2 for the second most and 1 for the 3rd