AmeVulpes
2019-02-13, 06:50 PM
I have had no internet access for the last few days, so I've been poring over various sourcebooks (particularly core, Savage Species, and Arms & Equipment Guide).
There's a line in the PHB, page 110.
Skills and Feats: You can call your skills,
feats, and class features whatever your character
would call them. Lidda, the halfling rogue, talks
about “footpaddin’ ” rather than about “moving
silently,”
[...]
You might also think of other skills that your
character ought to have. Your DM has guidelines
(in the Dungeon Master’s Guide) for creating new
skills.
Emphasis mine.
So, where in the DMG are these guidelines? I kept trying to find it, to no avail. I tend to lose track of text after a few dozen paragraphs to pages, so maybe I skipped over it. I really like this idea, and it comes up a lot that players think the core skills are a bit restricting, or don't quite fit them.
EDIT: I tried more google-fu just now, and found this in reference to said line:
Grant you, that line about the DMG having rules on creating new features is something of a white lie, but it makes an important point.
So does this guideline exist at all?
There's a line in the PHB, page 110.
Skills and Feats: You can call your skills,
feats, and class features whatever your character
would call them. Lidda, the halfling rogue, talks
about “footpaddin’ ” rather than about “moving
silently,”
[...]
You might also think of other skills that your
character ought to have. Your DM has guidelines
(in the Dungeon Master’s Guide) for creating new
skills.
Emphasis mine.
So, where in the DMG are these guidelines? I kept trying to find it, to no avail. I tend to lose track of text after a few dozen paragraphs to pages, so maybe I skipped over it. I really like this idea, and it comes up a lot that players think the core skills are a bit restricting, or don't quite fit them.
EDIT: I tried more google-fu just now, and found this in reference to said line:
Grant you, that line about the DMG having rules on creating new features is something of a white lie, but it makes an important point.
So does this guideline exist at all?