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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 6735361" data-attributes="member: 6790260">This was a common request back in 4e as well. The usual candidate, if one wished to keep the 4e-default list, was Dungeoneering, though its flaw was being Wis-based rather than Int-based. Adding an &quot;Engineering/Tinkering/Mechanics/Trapsmithing&quot; skill is probably the most-commonly-considered area.Personally, I think it's good that Investigation exists; as it is, Intelligence is a pretty weak stat outside of skills (and the rare, but potentially dangerous, Int save), so having something that can encroach on the awe-inspiring power of Wisdom+Perception is, IMO, all to the good.It would be trivial to just add &quot;Engineering&quot; as a skill proficiency, and let any player with a reason for it replace one of their Background skills with it. My Bard, for instance, is an Academy Graduate (custom background), so it would make perfect sense for him to have Engineering instead of Insight, if we were running a more &quot;technical&quot; campaign.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 6735361, member: 6790260"] This was a common request back in 4e as well. The usual candidate, if one wished to keep the 4e-default list, was Dungeoneering, though its flaw was being Wis-based rather than Int-based. Adding an "Engineering/Tinkering/Mechanics/Trapsmithing" skill is probably [I]the[/I] most-commonly-considered area. Personally, I think it's good that Investigation exists; as it is, Intelligence is a pretty weak stat outside of skills (and the rare, but potentially dangerous, Int save), so having [I]something[/I] that can encroach on the awe-inspiring power of Wisdom+Perception is, IMO, all to the good. It would be trivial to just add "Engineering" as a skill proficiency, and let any player with a reason for it replace one of their Background skills with it. My Bard, for instance, is an Academy Graduate (custom background), so it would make perfect sense for him to have Engineering instead of Insight, if we were running a more "technical" campaign. [/QUOTE]

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