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Message: <blockquote data-quote="velm" data-source="post: 1854412" data-attributes="member: 25998">I gotta agree here.  It can add a TON of roleplaying capability.  Not all the skills get used.  Why do not all the skills get used?  The players and the DM.  If the players don't ever WANT to use them, why should they?  It also might be the characters the Players are running.  If the DM has a certain game style that limits some of it as well.I know a rogue could do some interesting things with forgery and appraise.  I have used appraise many times as a rogue, how else do you know what items are valued at, to a degree, of course?  You could lay so many cons with appraise, if done right.  Forgery goes the same way, combine forgery with say, disguise, and you probably walk right into a counting room.  Just forge the right papers, and dress the right part, and you are in.  I have seen so many times when skills were not used by people or just not taken.  Some people just think 'differently'  it is not bad that they look at some skills as being useless, I just try to find value in them.  I have gotten into friendly debats with a buddy of mine over some of the uses of ones that at first appearance would seem useless.  Yes, when the characters get higher in lvl, some of the skills fall off in the wayside, but what happens if that magic fails?  what happens if all of a sudden the pcs find themselves in a magic dead zone or a wild magic zone? or what if they are in an area where there is a penalty for using magic?  It is at these points where having some of those skills can come in really handy.</blockquote>

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