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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bacons" data-source="post: 4727020" data-attributes="member: 54872">I remembered this offending material, so I looked it up. It's from the 'Races & Classes' marketing book."But when's the last time you saw a PC make a Profession check that had a useful effect on the game? (Hint: If it was recently, your game is probably not as much fun as D&D should be. Sorry.)"The bit in parenthesis was a stupid joke that shouldn't have made it into publication. I think, given the material surrounding that bit, that the people who wrote and edited it thought they were being funny about having to put ranks in Profession skills all the time if you wanted to stay current for a relatively esoteric check. Obviously, it offended people more than it amused, but I don't think it's particularly ingenious to decide the whole system is talking down to the players and dictating their fun based on a lame joke in a promotional book from before said system was even published.</blockquote>