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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nharwell" data-source="post: 1024815" data-attributes="member: 1099">I'm always confused by those who talk about how "unrealistic" the Perform skill was in 3.0.  D&D not "realistic"? How shocking! Seriously, if Perform bothered you, how did you tolerate the silly combat system?  Do other skills not bother you? I have a MA in history, and I certainly find the idea of a single Knowledge:History skill completely unrealistic. Perhaps that should be separated into categories by race, nation, time period, etc. And what about Knowledge: Religion? One skill to cover all the religions of the gameworld?  Totally "unrealistic."One thing 3.5 did right was to combine some of the narrower skills together. Unfortunately, they did the exact opposite with Perform! Perform is really a useless skill for anyone except a Bard -- and penalizing Bard players for "roleplaying reasons" seems quite unfair to me. The perform skill could have easily been made a feature of the Bard class; other classes could simply use an appropriate Profession skill.</blockquote>