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<blockquote data-quote="buzz" data-source="post: 1076154" data-attributes="member: 6777">Well, Knowledge (nature) isn't useless, imho, as it provides the PC with knowledge about &quot;animals, fey, giants, monstrous humanoids, plants, season and cycles, weather, and vermin.&quot; That's a LOT of possible encounter types.As for tanner or blacksmith, I echo what I've been saying. PCs generally have so much gold at their command after even a handful of levels that it's much more sensible to pay an expert to do these things than invest skill points. E.g., one of my groups right now is just hitting 5th level, and we have more loot than we know what to do with. For some reason, this hasn't stopped our no-ranks-in-Concentration wizard from maxing out Craft(bowmaking); he keeps going on about making arrows, and I'm just like, &quot;Dude, we can buy them for 1gp per 20... why the heck would we want to hang out for a week or two in town while you make ones from scratch?&quot; It simply makes no sense to me.Skill points are far more precious than gold. If it's a choice between spending skill points and spending gold, you spend the gold. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="buzz, post: 1076154, member: 6777"] Well, Knowledge (nature) isn't useless, imho, as it provides the PC with knowledge about "animals, fey, giants, monstrous humanoids, plants, season and cycles, weather, and vermin." That's a LOT of possible encounter types. As for tanner or blacksmith, I echo what I've been saying. PCs generally have so much gold at their command after even a handful of levels that it's much more sensible to pay an expert to do these things than invest skill points. E.g., one of my groups right now is just hitting 5th level, and we have more loot than we know what to do with. For some reason, this hasn't stopped our no-ranks-in-Concentration wizard from maxing out Craft(bowmaking); he keeps going on about making arrows, and I'm just like, "Dude, we can buy them for 1gp per 20... why the heck would we want to hang out for a week or two in town while you make ones from scratch?" It simply makes no sense to me. Skill points are far more precious than gold. If it's a choice between spending skill points and spending gold, you spend the gold. :) [/QUOTE]

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