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<blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 3692423" data-attributes="member: 4720">There is nothing in the rules for vanilla d20 that goes outside this statement, you know.&nbsp; Skill selection is entirely arbitrary, as is combat and casting skill advancement.Again, the rogue who did nothing but kill kobolds last level might get a whole bunch on non-combat skill increases but no BAB advancement, depending on what level it is.&nbsp; The level 2 rogue could also take ranks in Knowledge(Extraplanar beings of DOOM) if he wanted, albeit cross-class, whether he had faced one in the kobold mine or not, and technically he could do it whether or not the setting included such beings.There are NO inherent practice assumptions in d20, and I really wish people would stop posting as if there were, or else back it up somehow.&nbsp; It really is abstractions and assumptions all the way down.&nbsp; Just because they're abstractions and assumptions that have been around for a while doesn't make them any more concrete.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost, post: 3692423, member: 4720"] There is nothing in the rules for vanilla d20 that goes outside this statement, you know. Skill selection is entirely arbitrary, as is combat and casting skill advancement. Again, the rogue who did nothing but kill kobolds last level might get a whole bunch on non-combat skill increases but no BAB advancement, depending on what level it is. The level 2 rogue could also take ranks in Knowledge(Extraplanar beings of DOOM) if he wanted, albeit cross-class, whether he had faced one in the kobold mine or not, and technically he could do it whether or not the setting included such beings. There are NO inherent practice assumptions in d20, and I really wish people would stop posting as if there were, or else back it up somehow. It really is abstractions and assumptions all the way down. Just because they're abstractions and assumptions that have been around for a while doesn't make them any more concrete. [/QUOTE]

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