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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 2055564" data-attributes="member: 177">In a highly violent world of epic stories, this is a feature, not a bug.  If you're doing grim'n'gritty, yes, it is an issue.Ever read the "Wheel of Time" books?  I'm told they contain the concept of "Tav'ieren" (perhaps not spelled properly).  In general, people with this quality are important to teh universe, and people without it aren't.  People without it have a hard time hurting or influencing people with it.  Anyone with enough oomph to impact the universe notably through skills is important enough that they're also difficult to kill.  An older guy who's had a really interesting life, but never actually taken professional training as anything.  A farmer who's lived through a whole mess of wars through his lands and managed to survive.  While he's not an epic fighter by any means, he's still learned so much (about everything in life) that he's a force to be reckoned with.By noting that "masterwork" level crafts are done by hitting a measly DC of 20.  You can do that Taking 10 with a high stat and proper skill and feat choices at level 1.  The thing that makes him the best painter in the world isn't that he has loads of skill, it's that very few people study painting enough to have the skill at all, much less have used a feat on it.The name is not terribly important.  They have the really broad skill choice so that the DM can choose to makehim an Expert in any particular field, which may require many different skills.  A really good Locksmith won't just have Open Lock.  He's probably got a couple of craft skills in there, Disable device, and a Profession skill to handle the bookkeeping of running a business, plus some Diplomacy for business transactions...</blockquote>

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