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<blockquote data-quote="Herobizkit" data-source="post: 5088225" data-attributes="member: 36150">Characters with no Int bonus (or in your case, at a penalty!) aren't exactly designed to be skill monkeys.&nbsp; You could always take Skill Focus (Disable Device) if you want it higher, but if you're only taking it for flavour, call it a &quot;hobby&quot; and move on. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Expert gives 6 skill points/level.&nbsp; With your Int penalty, that works out to 4 skill points/level.&nbsp; This means that the DM could have maxed out 4 of your skills.&nbsp; Did your DM tell you which ten of your skills are considered class skills?&nbsp; (Have you even looked at the <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/npcClasses/Expert.htm" target="_blank">Expert</a> class?)&nbsp; And Disable Device is based off Int as well!&nbsp; You're fighting a lost battle, friend.The only core off-set for TWF penalties is high Str.&nbsp; Still, a -2/-2 is the typical penalty for Flurry et al as well, so you're not hurting as a result.&nbsp; Ditto the comment about a spiked shield.And hey, you could always spring for a Throwing and Returning enchantment on your hand axe so you could biff it at will (which I find ridiculous; hand axes get a x3 crit multiplier, versus a x2 for a throwing axe, in exchange for &quot;can't be thrown&quot;).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Herobizkit, post: 5088225, member: 36150"] Characters with no Int bonus (or in your case, at a penalty!) aren't exactly designed to be skill monkeys. You could always take Skill Focus (Disable Device) if you want it higher, but if you're only taking it for flavour, call it a "hobby" and move on. ;) Expert gives 6 skill points/level. With your Int penalty, that works out to 4 skill points/level. This means that the DM could have maxed out 4 of your skills. Did your DM tell you which ten of your skills are considered class skills? (Have you even looked at the [url=http://www.d20srd.org/srd/npcClasses/Expert.htm]Expert[/url] class?) And Disable Device is based off Int as well! You're fighting a lost battle, friend. The only core off-set for TWF penalties is high Str. Still, a -2/-2 is the typical penalty for Flurry et al as well, so you're not hurting as a result. Ditto the comment about a spiked shield. And hey, you could always spring for a Throwing and Returning enchantment on your hand axe so you could biff it at will (which I find ridiculous; hand axes get a x3 crit multiplier, versus a x2 for a throwing axe, in exchange for "can't be thrown"). [/QUOTE]

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