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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 6044870" data-attributes="member: 6701124">I'd argue that (at least in 3.5/PF RAW) a single skill point actually represents some significant difference from the 0.  For a craft or profession, going from untrained and making a few silver to earning a significant amount of money.   Level 5 in PF is so advanced that a craftsman can actually make magical items.As far as skill (or xp) acquisition, I would argue that it isn't doing the same  old thing that gives you a meaningful increase in skill, its doing things that expand your limits (like a runner who hits 10 minute miles  and makes that their life-long pace vs. one that keeps trying to push  it).   Beyond initiative, it also takes opportunity to do that.  In modern real life there are sizable portions of the population who never advance beyond an initial entry level job commonly taken by more advantaged teenagers (grocery store bagger, register at McDonalds, the unskilled part of grounds keeping) and never acquire additional training.   And it isn't that the job is dead-end (well, in a decent economy), the older teens/ young college students commonly move into shift manager positions even if working only part time. In a society where 50-80% of the population was necessarily engaged in non-innovative agriculture with pressure to keep them there  I would expect even more people to be eternal 0-levels.</blockquote>