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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 2119724" data-attributes="member: 29014">I'd rather not argue about MoP in this Simulacrum thread, although if you'd like to do so, feel free to make a new thread about MoP.  I'll just comment that giving the rogue magical aid to compensate the wizard is entirely besides the point.  My point is that the existence of easily accessible magical aid at any level that provides a larger skill bonus than maxed-out ranks in the skill causes huge gaping balance issues in the skill check resolution system, unless everyone in the campaign setting has the same jacked-up access to magic as the PCs, which is extremely unlikely.  Your sample rogue who beats the wizard in Hide is a prime example.  If a similar wizard who was trying to make a skill check for which he did have ranks had a MoP-type effect, he could not be beaten by pretty much anyone, period (1 is not an auto-failure on skill checks and vice versa for 20), which is fine if he used a high-level spell slot to achieve this once per day, but a problem if he can carry around a wand that lets him do this all day long.  Side note:  every time I see someone consistently misspell rogue as rouge, it kills me a little inside.</blockquote>