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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Swarmkeeper" data-source="post: 8201104" data-attributes="member: 6921763">No.  Skills can be interchanged.  That’s the point of the variant rules.  Con and Strength are the abilities here.  You don’t make a Strength check for stamina.  And you don’t make a Con check to  climb, jump, or swim under difficult circumstances.  Swapping abilities is not what the Variant rules are about, they are about using skills under different abilities.  A DM could let you add a non-typical proficiency under a different ability.And whether the swimmer catches a herring or any other fish is immaterial. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>