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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barasawa" data-source="post: 6295962" data-attributes="member: 44909">Skill questions and commentI understand that the list of skills is an incomplete list of suggested skills, though the ones listed for race and specific traditions is more than suggested. However, I do agree that they could use some description. Of course, the Rule Zero always applies, but it's usually better to avoid issues and butting heads by making things clear at the beginning. In this case, that would be at character creation. (I've seen a lot of people totally wrap their character concept about one single thing. That includes me a few times.)On my part, this is just a request and suggestion. I'm sure you've all seen stuff like this go a bit sour in other games when something basic and possible vital is disagreed on by players.Though I do have a specific question. What the heck use is Meditation?! Sure, in the real world, it's supposed to be a way to 'center yourself'. Pretty much everyone recognizes it as the old sitting down mumbling mantras and basically doing nothing. I really don't see that having a game effect, other than expending time out of combat, which of course, you don't need to take actions to do. In other games, I've seen meditation used for many things, negating penalties, stopping poison, recharging magic, doing ritual magics, asking the GM questions, and so many others.  This is something that seems it should be on the special skills list. Since it's not, I'd just ignore it and toss it out as only a hobby skill, but it's on the list of several traditions, so it must have some kind of function. If it's in the doc somewhere, I haven't read it yet, but that's possible. Of course, the effects of any skill is pretty much assumed to be listed in the skills area.Along with Meditation, I feel I have to ask what's up with Dungeoneering? Humans have that on their skill list. Wait, humans are adventuring so much they all go on weekend dungeon crawls or something? Also, ignoring D&D for now, what the heck is it used for? Identifying secret doors, crossing over old rickety bridges, or every trap check and treasure search in an adventure? Maybe it's for designing and constructing dungeons, a dungeon engineer. It really seems that a sentence, possibly a short one, might clear that up.Hey, I like it, and was finally able to convince the spouse to let me kickstart it (she usually has my entire check spent down to the cent 2 weeks before I get it), so please don't take this as a negative. After all, from the writers viewpoint I'm pretty sure there was a clear conception of what all those were, it's just us second hand readers that are wondering.It does seem that a number of skills in the samples list overlap a lot if not completely, but that's ok, as it's an 'Open' list, so expect some synonyms. So if some were to be clarified, the ones in the Races and Traditions are probably the ones most likely to receive that attention.Again, I'm babbling a whole lot. I'm a lousy writer and it's my vain attempt to try and make myself understood, while attempting to shoehorn in everything I'm thinking of, so it tends to run on like this sentence does.</blockquote>

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