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<blockquote data-quote="TheCosmicKid" data-source="post: 6719072" data-attributes="member: 6683613">5E D&amp;D really just isn't set up to model finer distinctions in skill level.&nbsp; It assumes that having a skill is more or less binary:&nbsp; you either know how to do something or you don't.&nbsp; It further assumes that the benefit of skill is comparatively modest against the vagaries of circumstance:&nbsp; only a few extra points on a d20 roll.&nbsp; Whatever difference there is between your half-orc and your elf is just a rounding error -- whatever marginal improvements the elf has made to the basic technique over the years are not significant to be worth modeling in such an abstracted system.&nbsp; Other games, of course, make different assumptions, but they come with tradeoffs of their own.There's also the fact that elves officially mature at about the same rate as humans now.&nbsp; So there's nothing saying that centenarian elves are equivalent to twenty-somethings of other races any more. Maybe that's the problem solved right there.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheCosmicKid, post: 6719072, member: 6683613"] 5E D&D really just isn't set up to model finer distinctions in skill level. It assumes that having a skill is more or less binary: you either know how to do something or you don't. It further assumes that the benefit of skill is comparatively modest against the vagaries of circumstance: only a few extra points on a d20 roll. Whatever difference there is between your half-orc and your elf is just a rounding error -- whatever marginal improvements the elf has made to the basic technique over the years are not significant to be worth modeling in such an abstracted system. Other games, of course, make different assumptions, but they come with tradeoffs of their own. There's also the fact that elves officially mature at about the same rate as humans now. So there's nothing saying that centenarian elves are equivalent to twenty-somethings of other races any more. Maybe that's the problem solved right there. [/QUOTE]

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