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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jefe Bergenstein" data-source="post: 9065784" data-attributes="member: 31506">I feel bad for the character who takes the foraging skill. Like... do you even goodberry? All of the exploration ribbons that the ranger does is handwaived by magic anyways to get to the fireworks factory rather than dealing with counting sticks, bars of hard tack, etc. People like to pretend torch counting mattered in old school, but continual light was a 2nd level spell. Purify Food and Drink was 1st level, allowing you to eat basically anything. Goodberry was 2nd level, as was Rope Trick, the "players demand a rest now" spell. Gold and magic items rained from the sky even in 1e/2e by the treasure table rules (and published adventures). The dirt farmer grubbing coppers to buy a lantern was a myth by the rules and official adventures. We could strip all the magic out to let the ranger shine at scavenging, but scutwork isn't an exciting niche for most people. There ARE games that focus on that, but D&D hasn't really for a long time (and I'd argue never really did past level 1 or 2).I think a better area of focus would be on using terrain in interesting ways, ambushes, countering monster abilities and creating/exploiting weaknesses. The skill system is shallow because there aren't mythic/legendary applications of skills, and only binary pass/fail, not because skills arent broken up into even more options for people to pick something the DM never calls for. Hell, even modern Call of Cthulhu has better skill rules, with degrees of success and pushing rolls which introduces "success with consequence".</blockquote>

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