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<blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 8476407" data-attributes="member: 71699">I understand what you mean, but in the vernacular players regularly use &quot;skill&quot; as shorthand for a defined aspect of an ability: a set of ways they can ordinarily expect to be able to use that ability, that have been defined to a greater or lesser extent, often with examples, by the game designers. So when a player says they use their medicine skill on a downed friend, I see no reason to not understand that they are seeking to apply their proficiency with medicine to stabilizing them. (And I realise that you are very careful with your language, and like to avoid or hedge on anything that could erode one of your existing commitments.)When [USER=29398]@Lanefan[/USER] asks what the skills are there for - why do we choose X of Y with our class, and why our background gives us some additional skills. It is a reasonable question: what are they there for if their possessor cannot use that ability in the ways defined as its facets, and with which they are justified in supposing they are proficient, or even expert?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="clearstream, post: 8476407, member: 71699"] I understand what you mean, but in the vernacular players regularly use "skill" as shorthand for a defined aspect of an ability: a set of ways they can ordinarily expect to be able to use that ability, that have been defined to a greater or lesser extent, often with examples, by the game designers. So when a player says they use their medicine skill on a downed friend, I see no reason to not understand that they are seeking to apply their proficiency with medicine to stabilizing them. (And I realise that you are very careful with your language, and like to avoid or hedge on anything that could erode one of your existing commitments.) When [USER=29398]@Lanefan[/USER] asks what the skills are there for - why do we choose X of Y with our class, and why our background gives us some additional skills. It is a reasonable question: what are they there for if their possessor cannot use that ability in the ways defined as its facets, and with which they are justified in supposing they are proficient, or even expert? [/QUOTE]

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