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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FourthBear" data-source="post: 3985677" data-attributes="member: 55846">The problem that many people perceive is that in D&D, skill ranks are innately tied to level, which intimately links attack bonuses, save bonuses and many other bonuses to skill ranks.  Because of this, you indeed get the phenomena as noted above that the most skilled person in any profession is always a combat and adventuring capable character.  If this is reasonable to your world-building, that is fine.  It would result in the world's greatest authors, rock stars, scientists and historians all having high levels and therefore being capable combatants and adventurers.  Many world builders prefer not to tie skill ranks to level so tightly and therefore allowing the world's greatest painter not to  be a high level Expert.The obvious answer is that there is no reason to tie skill rank to level for NPCs or monsters.  The whole reason skill rank in the PH are tied to level is because PC creation rules are designed to create starting PCs that are members of adventuring parties.  It assumes that PCs using these rules will be part of typical D&D campaigns and be spending time overcoming combat and non-combat challenges along the way.  It also assumes that there is some need to balance their relative skills against each other and the level appropriate challenges they face.NPC generation and simulation should not be limited by any of these factors.  An NPC who spends their entire life away from combat and adventuring situations should very well be able to have a Knowledge (History) that has no relation to their level.  There is no need to require that NPCs be generated with a system created for entirely another purpose.  If world-builders wish to create a world resembling many fantasy fictional worlds where the most highly skilled poet may be a sheltered person without all the trappings of high level, there is no need to use such a system.</blockquote>

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