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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Souljourner" data-source="post: 2704249" data-attributes="member: 1622">Well, this has gone way off point, but that's fine by me.  Let me put in my two cents about faking a low skill.Most of the things you're talking about are craft skills (except for the archery).  For those, I think you can easily fake a low skill.  It's easy to make a crappy pie - forget an ingredient, screw up proportions, over bake, under bake, etc.  I make a damn good pie, and I could easily make one that sucks.  And yes, the process is as much a measure of a person's skill as the end result.. however, it's also easy to fake that.  One of the things you learn when you become a cook is how *not* to do things.  It's fairly trivial just to do them that way.  Just because someone can crack an egg in each hand at the same time, doesn't mean they can't use both hands and crack it such that shells fall into the food.Thia - your proposal is different than what other people are suggesting, and I agree that it would take a higher level of skill.  But that's not really what we're talking about... we're talking about intentionally sucking.Now, about the original question - I was really asking more to see if there was anything where, if you fail by a certain amount, there's a side effect which could be useful in some limited circumstances.-The Souljourner</blockquote>