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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 7173541" data-attributes="member: 6775031">Most 3E characters that I've seen tend to choose a handful of skills and keep them maxed out, because having a couple of ranks in something just isn't very useful. There are exceptions, of course, but this is still my observation of ~80 percent of characters. It's less bookkeeping, and it tends to streamline actual gameplay since you don't have to worry about attempting checks that you have a low chance of passing.Those rules are in the DMG, and are considered optional. Plenty of people opted to use those rules, because instantly mastering a language is silly, and there's only so many concessions you can make in the name of gameplay before the players stop taking things seriously. Many did not opt to use those rules, because they just didn't care that much.When 4E launched, the ability to instantly retrain out one language for another language was one of the first criticisms against it, but it's only a problem if you actually care about that sort of thing.</blockquote>