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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Christian" data-source="post: 2532623" data-attributes="member: 381">Well, ain't this fun?Here's my basic take on the situation. From the 3.5 SRD:PERFORM (CHA)Like Craft, Knowledge, and Profession, Perform is actually a number of separate skills.You could have several Perform skills, each with its own ranks, each purchased as a separate skill ...From the 3.0 SRD:RIDE (DEX) When the character selects this skill, choose the type of mount the character is familiar with. For this purpose, "horses" includes mules, donkeys, and ponies. If the character uses the skill with a different mount (such as riding a giant lizard when the character is used to riding horses), the character's rank is reduced by 2 (but not below 0). If the character uses this skill with a very different mount (such as riding a griffon when the character is used to riding horses), the character's rank is reduced by 5 (but not below 0).And again, from the 3.5 SRD:KNOWLEDGE (INT; Trained Only) ... Local: This is actually a number of separate skills. You could have several Knowledge (Local) skills, each with its own ranks, each purchased as a separate skill ...Oh, wait. It doesn't say that. Let me try that copy/paste again.KNOWLEDGE (INT; Trained Only) ... Local: When the character selects this skill, choose the locale the character is familiar with. If the character uses this skill in a different locale, the character's rank is reduced by ...Oh, wait. It doesn't say that either.The RAW have only one Knowledge (Local) skill. It's the same skill for someone raised in Mayberry as for someone raised in New York City. Maybe that doesn't make a lot of in-game logical sense, but from a balance perspective, it's eminently reasonable. Fact is, this is a marginally useful skill as written. Making PC's take it separately for each region (or, heaven forbid, each village) nerfs it to uselessness. Yes, FR does that as a special rule for that setting. If that were the only problem with the FRCS, I might still use it ...</blockquote>

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