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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Zardoz" data-source="post: 3080044" data-attributes="member: 704">The biggest issue is that Skills, more than any other aspect of the game, require both the DM and the players to come up with uses for them.There are not that many skills that you can guarantee will always be useful.  Feats can suffer from this a little bit, but not as much.  Unless your game is very atypical, you can be pretty sure you will end up in a fight, and most feats are geared for combat.But Skills are meant to cover things any mundane person might be able to do.  Once spent, you cannot reassign the skill points.  They rarely have any impact on combat.  And most importantly, nearly any skill can be duplicated by the use of a Spell.  And for most Casters, Spells can be memorized and used just as they are needed.  Its not big deal for a Wizard to memorize a spell like Water breathing if they expect to be in contact with water.  If he only ever needs it once, it gets used and just stays in his spell book until needed.But if you put a bunch of ranks in Swim, and only ever swim once, its not really that useful.  And Disguise is seldom useful, given that it is usually easier to use spells when such things are called for.Spot, Listen, Bluff, Sense Motive, and Tumble are the only skills you can be certain of needing though most of your adventuring career.  If your a spell caster, you can also add Concentration to that.The rest of the skills are remarkably dependant on the campaign setting, the adventures you typically end up playing in, and the players themselves.END COMMUNICATION</blockquote>

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