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Message: <blockquote data-quote="amerigoV" data-source="post: 6338473">I would just say that knowledge and ability are not uniform in people (ie two people with +5 in a skill do not know the exact same things). Look at the person next to you that has the same qualifications (on paper) and job title. Can they to EXACTLY the same thing at the level of proficiency and in the same timeframe as you? While their might be a good number of things that one of you can do as well as the other, something that might take you 20 minutes might take them two days to figure out, and vice versa. For example in football both the Right Tackle and the Left Tackle both might be very good overall, but the Right Tackle (in the NFL/College) tends to be a better run blocker and the Left tackle a better pass blocker. To make up a D&D example. Bob the human thief might be very good at locks, but he may never have worked on a Gnomish Lock. Wiggletoes the Gnomish Thief might just be starting out in his career but he started on Gnomish Locks. So perhaps the lock that Wiggletoes got but Bob failed has a bit of Gnome in it (cuz the Ogre stuffed a Gnome in there <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />). Now the DM may not have thought of this when making the adventure, but they can use something like that to explain stuff if they want.</blockquote>

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