Venting - Skill Checks and Role Playing vs Roll Playing

[Lord of Shadows]

Actually, skills tend to fall by the wayside in really high-op stuff, except for a few peculiar tricks. Hide/Move Silently is better than any sort of magical stealth, because True Seeing doesn't beat it; Sleight of Hand can be used for some high-op stuff because it can't be defended against by RAW; same with Diplomacy. Otherwise, I don't actually see that much focus on skills at the high end.

Yea, I was thinking mainly of the Stealth (or Hide/Move Silent) stuff. That can get wicked at high levels.
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