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<blockquote data-quote="Chun-tzu" data-source="post: 881851" data-attributes="member: 1441">Combining the two isn't necessarily a mistake. If you had a single Perception skill, then a blind person could not make any Perception checks that involve sight, and a deaf person couldn't make any that involve hearing. Simple enough.But I'm not sure it's such a good idea from a balance perspective. Spot and Listen are already prime choice skills. If they were combined, everyone would take ranks in Perception.For smell, it makes a fine skill for races with more developed senses of smell, such as Gnomes and Orcs. In fact, there's a Sniff skill detailed by Throwing Dice Games in their free material:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.throwingdice.com/freestuff.html" target="_blank">http://www.throwingdice.com/freestuff.html</a>Having a Sniff skill works fine for some characters, but it doesn't really solve the problem Nifft is talking about. It would be nice if there was a rule for perception checks that aren't covered by Spot or Listen. Maybe characters could have a default Perception score that's the average of their Spot and Listen scores.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chun-tzu, post: 881851, member: 1441"] Combining the two isn't necessarily a mistake. If you had a single Perception skill, then a blind person could not make any Perception checks that involve sight, and a deaf person couldn't make any that involve hearing. Simple enough. But I'm not sure it's such a good idea from a balance perspective. Spot and Listen are already prime choice skills. If they were combined, everyone would take ranks in Perception. For smell, it makes a fine skill for races with more developed senses of smell, such as Gnomes and Orcs. In fact, there's a Sniff skill detailed by Throwing Dice Games in their free material: [url]http://www.throwingdice.com/freestuff.html[/url] Having a Sniff skill works fine for some characters, but it doesn't really solve the problem Nifft is talking about. It would be nice if there was a rule for perception checks that aren't covered by Spot or Listen. Maybe characters could have a default Perception score that's the average of their Spot and Listen scores. [/QUOTE]

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