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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The_Gneech" data-source="post: 4499257" data-attributes="member: 6779">Okay, to knock some silliness out of the way right off the bat:If somebody with Profession (Sailor) wants to climb a rope, that person makes a Climb check. Profession (Sailor) is for things that don't have other skills already, like using an astrolabe. Sheesh.I have always been a fan of "useless" skills because I want the game-mechanic model of my character to match my mental model. Even if the character doesn't ever make a check against Profession (Scribe), it warms some geeky little place in my heart to have defined the character's abilities in such a way. Besides, if I get creative enough with it, I can probably come up with some way to make it useful during the course of an adventure, even the most plotless dungeon crawl since "Orc and Pie."As for there never being a good use for it in any RPG, people might think the same thing about a Psychoanalysis skill until they've played Call of Cthulhu. There's a lot more to RPGs, or at least the great ones, than killing monsters and taking their stuff.-The Gneech <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>