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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Utrecht" data-source="post: 706918" data-attributes="member: 1411">While I certainly do not disagree that the DM has a certain amount of control over the usefullness of skills - I also feel that the skills themselves lead toward preferential pickings.After all, what realistic motivation do I have to put more than 1 skill point into Intuite direction????  (and the only reason that I would do that is because it is trained skill) - if my  character ever found himself in that situation, all they would do is take 20 - boom, I have found true north (whopee).This as opposed to putting points into something like tumble that allows me to avoid attacks!!!!!!Look at it this way, fundamentally, allocating skill points is fundamentally a form of gambling - do I spend it on something that will get used a lot over the course of my adventures or "waste" it on the blue moon situation.  While I do not deny that in that blue moon situation, it could save the characters life - putting points into other skills (like spot) saved my character many many time before that - and the both cost the same!!!!!Like I said, I truly beleive some sort of leveling of the skills are necessary - after all, given your average D&D campaign, what you rather have over the course of that campaign 20 ranks in use rope or 20 ranks in listen????  20 ranks in Appraise or 20 ranks in Spellcraft???</blockquote>