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<blockquote data-quote="Mike Myler" data-source="post: 8501403" data-attributes="member: 6726030"><p>Aye I've always thought the same. </p><p></p><p>I had that thought, then I wondered about how many investigations—criminals on the frontier, in territory that isn't fully governed, with towns where nobody will recognize them or have word of their deeds, just open space and freedom—would be the kind that <em>use </em>the Investigation skill. It'd mostly be asking around "see a guy this tall, buys a lot at once, maybe had a leg wound" which hardly seemed like an ability check (assuming these criminals don't just keep stealing from people, which why wouldn't they). So for me it came down to "should be better at tracking fleeing criminals or ferreting them out" and in the calculus Survival seemed like it played a bigger role (following trails out in the wilderness, many that were probably days old or older). Feel free to swap a feat or 2 points of Wisdom for Skilled (pick up Investigation and Persuasion, then maybe Intimidation?) if you like, but I think for a marshal in a frontier territory (as opposed to a career city cop) this is hitting the target.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 26px"><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😮" title="Face with open mouth :open_mouth:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f62e.png" data-shortname=":open_mouth:" /></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mike Myler, post: 8501403, member: 6726030"] Aye I've always thought the same. I had that thought, then I wondered about how many investigations—criminals on the frontier, in territory that isn't fully governed, with towns where nobody will recognize them or have word of their deeds, just open space and freedom—would be the kind that [I]use [/I]the Investigation skill. It'd mostly be asking around "see a guy this tall, buys a lot at once, maybe had a leg wound" which hardly seemed like an ability check (assuming these criminals don't just keep stealing from people, which why wouldn't they). So for me it came down to "should be better at tracking fleeing criminals or ferreting them out" and in the calculus Survival seemed like it played a bigger role (following trails out in the wilderness, many that were probably days old or older). Feel free to swap a feat or 2 points of Wisdom for Skilled (pick up Investigation and Persuasion, then maybe Intimidation?) if you like, but I think for a marshal in a frontier territory (as opposed to a career city cop) this is hitting the target. [SIZE=7]😮[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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