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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9231515" data-attributes="member: 93670">A sea going ship or pirate Corsair focused campaign is likely to involve quite a bit more swimming than climbing to the point that anecdote reversed even.&nbsp; The damage caused by this excessive combining of basically every skill impacts teamwork and adventure possibilities rather than just the verisimilitude [USER=16668]@Ulorian - Agent of Chaos[/USER] noted.D&amp;d doesn't need to be about athletes competing in sports for there to be valued in more distinct less generalist catchall skills because it's a game of specialist classes working together.&nbsp; Through working together they can cover each other's weaknesses with their own strengths.&nbsp; That is still true even with the many attempts at making it into a game of Mary Sue &amp;Gary Stu telling their story while sitting at the same table.&nbsp; Maybe that time a water based issue comes up in a more landlocked campaign the party turns to the player with a PC who is awful in both swimming and climbing to use spells spells like water breathing after finding some scrolls &amp; potions or go barter adventuring services to the fish people tribe for help with the water problem (perhaps in the form of the scrolls or potions of water breathing that they need).&nbsp; Alternately when the pirate/Corsair campaign needs to climb a cliff face to reach the summit of an Island like the real world &quot;inaccessible Island&quot;(honest Google it) they again use magic or go barter adventuring services with that tribe of harpies they met.With the excessive clumping it's just captain mirrorshades saying &quot;I got this&quot; and everyone shrugging it off as a forgettable and pointless waste of time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 9231515, member: 93670"] A sea going ship or pirate Corsair focused campaign is likely to involve quite a bit more swimming than climbing to the point that anecdote reversed even. The damage caused by this excessive combining of basically every skill impacts teamwork and adventure possibilities rather than just the verisimilitude [USER=16668]@Ulorian - Agent of Chaos[/USER] noted. D&d doesn't need to be about athletes competing in sports for there to be valued in more distinct less generalist catchall skills because it's a game of specialist classes working together. Through working together they can cover each other's weaknesses with their own strengths. That is still true even with the many attempts at making it into a game of Mary Sue &Gary Stu [I][U]telling[/U][/I] [I]their[/I] story while sitting at the same table. Maybe that time a water based issue comes up in a more landlocked campaign the party turns to the player with a PC who is awful in both swimming and climbing to use spells spells like water breathing after finding some scrolls & potions or go barter adventuring services to the fish people tribe for help with the water problem (perhaps in the form of the scrolls or potions of water breathing that they need). Alternately when the pirate/Corsair campaign needs to climb a cliff face to reach the summit of an Island like the real world "inaccessible Island"(honest Google it) they again use magic or go barter adventuring services with that tribe of harpies they met. With the excessive clumping it's just captain mirrorshades saying "I got this" and everyone shrugging it off as a forgettable and pointless waste of time. [/QUOTE]

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