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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 7891918" data-attributes="member: 93670">it's especially bad with what gets merged.&nbsp; Take arcana in 5e &quot;recall lore about spells, magic items, eldritch symbols, magical traditions, the planes of existence, and the inhabitants of those planes.&quot;.&nbsp; A lot of those were skills of their own in the past.&nbsp; Other skills are like that too, arcana is just an especially glaring example.&nbsp; The resulting 5etoo few skills results in what is often effectively not much different than this silly statement: &quot;Well I know how to drive a car, so I know how to repair it, build parts for it, design a new car, repair dents &amp; other bodywork type stuff, replace broken windows in it, reprogram the onboard computer, know the history of classic cars, know the history of import cars, know the history of F1 racers/Nascar cars, Know the history of Hypercars, Can appraise the value of all those cars,etc&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 7891918, member: 93670"] it's especially bad with [I]what[/I] gets merged. Take arcana in 5e [I]"recall lore about spells, magic items, eldritch symbols, magical traditions, the planes of existence, and the inhabitants of those planes."[/I]. A lot of those were skills of their own in the past. Other skills are like that too, arcana is just an especially glaring example. The resulting 5etoo few skills results in what is often effectively not much different than this silly statement: "Well I know how to drive a car, so I know how to repair it, build parts for it, design a new car, repair dents & other bodywork type stuff, replace broken windows in it, reprogram the onboard computer, know the history of classic cars, know the history of import cars, know the history of F1 racers/Nascar cars, Know the history of Hypercars, Can appraise the value of all those cars,etc" [/QUOTE]

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