The Pathfinder RPG insists on grouping some skills I don't think are good choices.
Concentration now being part of Spellcraft? That is something I wish they went back to the standard 3.5 way; it's two different things and just makes the skill be too powerful. I didn't like this at all.
Search grouped with Spot and Listen is also bad, again, the skill becomes the mother of all skills, it serves for everything: Noticing something strange in a room, hear someone sneaking up behind you, find traps, eavesdrop on other people conversation, find hidden passages, etc... just get the skill maximized and with more feats maybe get skill focus and you're prepared for everything. Please, Spot + Listen is fine, but leave search alone.
Any opinions? I would like to see what the majority here thinks, coz I hope they undo these changes.
Spot and Listen I can understand as being placed together as Perception, along with other Sensing skills. Perception is a simple task of just using a sense to discover something. Search on the other hand is task of actually using hands and other appendages to thoroughly shift through papers, boxes, contents of containers and the like to find something specific or of interest.
I say Search should be separated from Perception into it's own skill. Search is much more closely related to investigation actions and research, than any of the sensing skills.
hehehe... wouldn't it be funny if Search and Concentration were grouped together?
hehehe... wouldn't it be funny if Search and Concentration were grouped together?
That idea may not be as crazy as it initially sounds...
You would be really focusing on your search... really concentrated on finding that secret door... lol