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Because games are dependent on shared fiction of the table, not individual campaign's shared fictions across everyone else's. And if you're publishing an adventure, you don't shame the table that wants to just use skills in a semi-realistic fashion into being fantastical. As I described earlier...

Again, ritual casting is rarely used. The only reason that's true about skills is that classes with a particular focus in 4e would usually get an extra skill — often in a skill that would be kind of useless, such as Religion on a non-Int-based PC. But plenty of options had the exact same number...

Again, ritual casting is rarely used. The only reason that's true about skills is that classes with a particular focus in 4e would usually get an extra skill — often in a skill that would be kind of useless, such as Religion on a non-Int-based PC. But plenty of options had the exact same number...

As Darkbard noted, it depends on whether or not you're creating a PC at a particular level or if you've played organically to that level. Also, whether or not you're using Inherent Bonuses. A good rule of thumb is that you should likely over the course of a tier find 3 Common Items, find 4...

No problem at all!

Anyone could be a ritual caster. Just take one of a handful of ritual casting feats and boom, you're a ritual caster. Or buy ritual scrolls. Anyone could take a range of highly useful multi-class feats for an extra skill among other great benefits. This was PHB. And two months later, any...

Anyone could be a ritual caster. Just take one of a handful of ritual casting feats and boom, you're a ritual caster. Or buy ritual scrolls. Anyone could take a range of highly useful multi-class feats for an extra skill among other great benefits. This was PHB. And two months later, any...

Because it is a daily option to do X, not a daily option to use X in an encounter as if one belonged to the class. Compare against Battle Berserker, which gives you the actual full-fledged feature, but only once a day.

Bounded Accuracy isn't mentioned in the 5e books. Which is weird that a game concept so integral to an RPG doesn't at any point get brought up given how easy it would have been to do that. Also, it isn't complicated — 5e is very much so about trying to target a 2/3rds chance of succeeding at a...

Bounded Accuracy isn't mentioned in the 5e books. Which is weird that a game concept so integral to an RPG doesn't at any point get brought up given how easy it would have been to do that. Also, it isn't complicated — 5e is very much so about trying to target a 2/3rds chance of succeeding at a...

It is a once a day thing similar to every other multiclass daily healing option.

Not sure why they would become all that powerful. All the systems, 1e-5e do kind of poorly at non-combat scenarios. They're basically about roleplaying with 3e-5e layering some concrete skill checks to be able to made on top of them and 4e having skill challenges. If you're saying that players...

Not sure why they would become all that powerful. All the systems, 1e-5e do kind of poorly at non-combat scenarios. They're basically about roleplaying with 3e-5e layering some concrete skill checks to be able to made on top of them and 4e having skill challenges. If you're saying that players...

No, "make a melee basic attack against a creature other than the target." where the target is the Throw part.

I find if I'm typing too fast in Firefox, it will somehow lose letters. So if I'm searching for say expertise in feats, it will get the 1st letter and the last letter of whatever I typed and the number of times I typed. So Eeeeeeeee instead of Expertise. And Sea Monkey doesn't do that.

Those are all examples of people trained in something being competitive with experts. Or non-experts with innate ability potentially doing badly compared to an average person. Not people with subpar innate ability and a lack of training competing against highly trained expert in a field. Many...

Those are all examples of people trained in something being competitive with experts. Or non-experts with innate ability potentially doing badly compared to an average person. Not people with subpar innate ability and a lack of training competing against highly trained expert in a field. Many...

Can you give a real life example of a challenge that you would expect someone below average and untrained to succeed at 25% of the time that a highly trained expert in the field would ever fail at in that field? It simply isn't realistic on any level, let alone with PCs breaking the boundaries...

Can you give a real life example of a challenge that you would expect someone below average and untrained to succeed at 25% of the time that a highly trained expert in the field would ever fail at in that field? It simply isn't realistic on any level, let alone with PCs breaking the boundaries...

The Fighter is using the skill in the comparison. A DC 15 check by an 8 Str Wizard untrained at 1st level means the Wizard needs to roll a 16 or 25% of the time. The 20 Strength, 20th level(+6 proficiency) Fighter has a +11 and therefore needs to roll a 4, or 85% of the time.