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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 6072107" data-attributes="member: 9037">I am going to say bull hockey on the wizard being like a grad student who studies all the time that may be true about things magical but what about the other knowledge skills. Whose to say that the sorcerer or the monk or even a fighter does not spend their downtime reading everything they can about history or dungeons  or religion. I know people in real life who have never really had former education beyond high school who are self educated just because they like learning. One of my family members is a deputy sheriff he has a two year degree in law enforcement his hobby is the civil war he does reenactments. He has read hundreds of books on that time in American history he has actually been invited in to give talks at the local university on the subject of the civil war. I have seen people choose not to play their wizard with a lot of knowledge skills which is fine like I said PCs should not be cookie cutters that is so boring. And even if the sorcerer chooses to be a history buff they are stepping on the wizard toes since skills and wizard magic come from intelligence they usually have a bigger intelligent stat than the sorcerer so that means extra skill points and bigger ability bonus.Like I said it bothers me that skills are based on class abilities it is like these PCs never had a life before they became adventurers.</blockquote>