Quote Originally Posted by Chronos View Post
The other thing is, some skills, any one party member succeeding is enough. If your friend the wizard can use Arcana to tell you what that magical greeble is and how it works, then you don't need to figure it out yourself.

To some extent, this can be true of charisma skills, too, that only the party face uses... but there, at least, you can argue that the presence of the low-charisma folks is hampering the face. And it's sometimes true of Perception, except that you can have everyone rolling Perception to determine surprise, and other things time-critical enough that there's no chance for the "party eyes" to alert everyone else. Mostly, the skills that are "one person succeeds for everyone" are all of the Int-based skills. Which means that, instead of "only the wizard needs Int and nobody else does", it turns into... "only the wizard needs Int and nobody else does".
That's the same for the normally highly rated sills as well. Only one person needs it.