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<blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 9137481" data-attributes="member: 7030563"><p>I agree with you about being most used and useful. I don't really agree with the idea of skills and class identity. Some skills are correlated to classes due to the way abilities are tied to classes (Warlocks and Charisma or Wizards and Intelligence), but I don't really believe in thematic skill ties to classes. </p><p></p><p>With the rules on skill replacement it is pretty easy for any class to get proficiency in any two specific skills they want and they end up being tied to background more than class. For example if you want to play a Wizard with Stealth and Deception proficiency, that is really easy to do. Pick Wizard class, take History and Arcana as your class skills. Then take the sage background and replace History and Arcana in the background with Stealth and Deception.</p><p></p><p>What is more difficult to do is play say a Wizard with the Performer background with Stealth and Deception. If you want to play a Performer wizard (street magician) you are pretty much stuck with Acrobatics and Performance as two of your skills and then the Wizard list for the other two. There is no way to get say stealth in this combo.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ECMO3, post: 9137481, member: 7030563"] I agree with you about being most used and useful. I don't really agree with the idea of skills and class identity. Some skills are correlated to classes due to the way abilities are tied to classes (Warlocks and Charisma or Wizards and Intelligence), but I don't really believe in thematic skill ties to classes. With the rules on skill replacement it is pretty easy for any class to get proficiency in any two specific skills they want and they end up being tied to background more than class. For example if you want to play a Wizard with Stealth and Deception proficiency, that is really easy to do. Pick Wizard class, take History and Arcana as your class skills. Then take the sage background and replace History and Arcana in the background with Stealth and Deception. What is more difficult to do is play say a Wizard with the Performer background with Stealth and Deception. If you want to play a Performer wizard (street magician) you are pretty much stuck with Acrobatics and Performance as two of your skills and then the Wizard list for the other two. There is no way to get say stealth in this combo. [/QUOTE]
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