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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6339473" data-attributes="member: 2067"><p>In that case, they're just color. They don't let you accomplish a goal you wouldn't otherwise be able to accomplish. If you don't HAVE to burst open the door or get that chest or gain advantage in order to get the MacGuffin, you don't need the skill. </p><p></p><p>It's also possible to sprinkle cookies for any skills. "Oh, you can use Performance to soothe this savage beast" or "Animal Handling gets the parrot to squawk the password!" or "You'll need Sleight of Hand to get that key!"</p><p></p><p>And if it's not just color, the whole party needs to do it -- if the goal is go get over that pit, then you're going to need ways for people without Athletics/Acrobatics to get over that pit. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I've never encountered one of these challenges that wasn't entirely ignorable or that I couldn't use some other skill to get the same result from. </p><p></p><p>I mean, they're D-ranked skills. You could say the same about Sleight of Hand or Performance or History. There are sometimes special challenges for those skills! Challenges that are mostly color or padding, and are hardly essential to the party's goals.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 6339473, member: 2067"] In that case, they're just color. They don't let you accomplish a goal you wouldn't otherwise be able to accomplish. If you don't HAVE to burst open the door or get that chest or gain advantage in order to get the MacGuffin, you don't need the skill. It's also possible to sprinkle cookies for any skills. "Oh, you can use Performance to soothe this savage beast" or "Animal Handling gets the parrot to squawk the password!" or "You'll need Sleight of Hand to get that key!" And if it's not just color, the whole party needs to do it -- if the goal is go get over that pit, then you're going to need ways for people without Athletics/Acrobatics to get over that pit. I've never encountered one of these challenges that wasn't entirely ignorable or that I couldn't use some other skill to get the same result from. I mean, they're D-ranked skills. You could say the same about Sleight of Hand or Performance or History. There are sometimes special challenges for those skills! Challenges that are mostly color or padding, and are hardly essential to the party's goals. [/QUOTE]
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