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<blockquote data-quote="Esker" data-source="post: 7837025" data-attributes="member: 6966824"><p>Well, more accurately, the human is a bit better at the skills in their fourth and fifth highest stat that both are proficient in. The elf/half-elf are better at the skill(s) they're proficient in that the human isn't (and also in the DEX skills that they share).</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>How many skill rolls a day do you make in that 5th stat do you think?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I wouldn't say that, necessarily, but I do think that I tend to cede skills that key off of my two lowest stats to other party members. I tend to opt for bards over rogues if I want to be good at CHA stuff, and make rogues that focus on DEX/WIS/INT. If I made a CHA-focused rogue I think I'd want to expertise multiple CHA skills, so might not worry about INT skills so much, except maybe Investigation. But I also like not dying, so AC is good (though letting front-liners take hits instead of me is better), especially at low levels when it's easier to get killed. I'm more than happy to trade a point of CHA or INT saves for a point of DEX saves. There are likely more DEX saves than CHA, INT and STR combined.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That's fair; I'd likely either swap persuasion for stealth, or swap investigation for deception. Right now I'm playing two rogues, one an arcane trickster with expertise in stealth, perception, arcana and sleight of hand; another an inquisitive with expertise in insight, perception, investigation, and stealth. I also have a bard with expertise in deception and insight (will probably go persuasion and perception at 10th).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Esker, post: 7837025, member: 6966824"] Well, more accurately, the human is a bit better at the skills in their fourth and fifth highest stat that both are proficient in. The elf/half-elf are better at the skill(s) they're proficient in that the human isn't (and also in the DEX skills that they share). How many skill rolls a day do you make in that 5th stat do you think? I wouldn't say that, necessarily, but I do think that I tend to cede skills that key off of my two lowest stats to other party members. I tend to opt for bards over rogues if I want to be good at CHA stuff, and make rogues that focus on DEX/WIS/INT. If I made a CHA-focused rogue I think I'd want to expertise multiple CHA skills, so might not worry about INT skills so much, except maybe Investigation. But I also like not dying, so AC is good (though letting front-liners take hits instead of me is better), especially at low levels when it's easier to get killed. I'm more than happy to trade a point of CHA or INT saves for a point of DEX saves. There are likely more DEX saves than CHA, INT and STR combined. That's fair; I'd likely either swap persuasion for stealth, or swap investigation for deception. Right now I'm playing two rogues, one an arcane trickster with expertise in stealth, perception, arcana and sleight of hand; another an inquisitive with expertise in insight, perception, investigation, and stealth. I also have a bard with expertise in deception and insight (will probably go persuasion and perception at 10th). [/QUOTE]
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