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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6567923" data-attributes="member: 42582">That's a nice analysis.There is still the need to balance rituals and Arcana/Religion checks, but - at least in my own experience - this isn't normally too hard. Besides the tendency of Arcana checks to be much more dependent on fictional context than rituals, there is also the prospect of complications on failed Arcana checks which aren't there for most ritual checks.In my game I think the weakest skill is probably Thievery, just because I'm not much of a traps/locks GM, or perhaps Heal (maybe a dozen Heal checks in 6 years of play? Perhaps a few more on some rituals that I've forgotten about).Skills that get tested pretty often are Acro, Aths and Stealth on the physical side (and Endurance coming in the second rank), Arcana and Religion on the intellectual side (with History in the second rank in this case), and then Diplomacy and Intimidate for socials (Bluff is close because we have a Bluff-y sorcerer, but not as all-round useful as those two; Insight gets rolled quite a bit because two or three PCs are good at it and those players like a social game; Streetwise has turned out to not come up very often because no one is trained and they don't spend enough time in urban areas).On the environmental side Perception is the big one. Nature and Dungeoneering have probably been mostly on a par - we treat Dungeoneering as also including aspects of architecture and engineering - but both secondary to Perception.</blockquote>

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