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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5694614" data-attributes="member: 82106">Ummmm, quick, which is bigger 13 or 14? Which is bigger Difficult or Hard? This is PURELY a matter of a player needing to know that bigger numbers are better than smaller numbers. Thankfully even 3e managed to achieve that miracle that TSR couldn't manage for 20 years. There's nothing else to it. What things could you want to be able to do here with ranking skills? You might want to know if character A or B is better at X, the answer is the one with the bigger skill bonus. You might want to know which is a more difficult check, the one with the higher DC. That's all there is to it. EVERYONE in the world knows basic ordination CJ, EVERYONE. Find a D&D player who cannot answer the question "is 9 smaller than 10?" correctly 100% of the time. I'm going to wager you will have a hard time finding that person.Now, use names instead of numbers. First of all you now only get to have something like 5 or 6 names instead of a limitless spread of possible numbers. Secondly everyone has to remember if Difficult is better than Hard or Master is better than Expert or whatever. That's not making anything easier for anyone.Your skill bonuses are written on your character sheet. When the DM says "make a DC20 check" you know exactly what chance you have to do that. I've got a +5 skill bonus, I need to roll a 15. BING! Nothing about the DM saying "It is an Expert level task" makes that easier. I'm a "Journeyman", what does that mean to me? I have to go look on some chart somewhere and find out that indeed I STILL need to compare a DC to a bonus. I think you underestimate the reasoning capability of players.</blockquote>

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