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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fba827" data-source="post: 4686386" data-attributes="member: 807">Well the short answer to your general question is ...no, you're not missing anything. noncombat stuff has been boiled down to skills and skills are supposed to be 'equally good for any character that takes it regardless of class'  (i.e. if you take arcana, you can detect magic as well as a wizard of the same int score)To modify this, if that is what you wish to do, i'd go for a simple approach, not far off from what Smeelbo has said (though his version involved another roll) -- if the tracks are in the wilderness and the tracker is trained in nature, then just give a +2 circumstance bonus to his own perception check to track.  same goes with if underground and tracker trained in dungeoneering, or in a city and trained in streetwise - that leaves it open for 'anyone as long as you have the skills'   or if you did want to tie it to rangers only then give rangers a class feature of +3 perception when tracking (kind of like skill focus but only for tracking).  but all this is really house rules i guess.And, as ImperialParadox pointed out, there is apparently a feat in Martial Power just for rangers to improve specifically this. (but i haven't seen it so don't know those details).</blockquote>