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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4108908" data-attributes="member: 710">I guess the major difference beween a ritual "Cook Food" and "Craft (Cooking)" is the way you acquire the ability. In 3E (until the retraining rules in PHB 2 at least, and wizard spell book learning), there wasn't a real way to learn aynthing outside of levelling. A master craftsmen had to take a lot of levels in Expert, and get HD, BAB, and Save increases with it.If you choose to model this stuff independent of character level, you make it possible to create a master craftsman without him advancing levels and getting all the "heroic" benefits.It's also an example of silioing. With "Craft (Cooking)", a Rogue for example might have to decide between this skill or another - let's say, Spot. There can be no doubt that in most scenarioes, Spot is a lot more useful then the ability to cook, so this means you probably never get a "cook" Rogue. If instead Cooking is something outside of the adventuring/combat related stuff, you can actually have a cooking Rogue, or a Fighter smith.  Off course, you can probably overdo such a system, and there is a risk that at some point, you get in a conflict with the other rules and create unbalanced effects (once you go into the whole "rituals to craft magical items area, for example). And I am not sure if the designers intend to go this route, or concentrate on "real" rituals that create magical effects. It's still a very interesting thought. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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