This has been brought up a few times in the skills category, but tended to pop up in separate thread with brief discussions rather than catching on as a single long thread. I don't know if that means no one cares or if it just seemed so obvious that discussion was unnecessary, but I'm bringing it up here again because in 4 days I won't be able to any more.
This issue really comes down to how the game views the divide between divine and arcane magic.
Personally, I find it odd that the study of magic is identical between Wizards and Clerics. Especially when there is an entire prestige class dedicated to exploring exactly where they do, in fact, overlap.
I think that Spellcraft should be done away with and merged into other skills.
Identifying a spell as it is being cast: Knowledge (Arcana) (Brd/Sor/Wiz), Knowledge (Religion) (Clr/Pdn), or Knowledge (Nature) (Drd/Rgr) (The required skill being determined by the caster.)
Learn a spell/Prepare a spell from a borrowed spellbook: Knowledge (Arcana) (Wizards only)
Cast Defensively/avoid losing a spell during X: Knowledge (Arcana) (Brd/Sor/Wiz), Knowledge (Religion) (Clr/Pdn), or Knowledge (Nature) (Drd/Rgr) (The required skill being determined by the caster.)
Alternatively, Concentration could be reinstated for the purpose of not losing spells, but the other spellcraft tasks could go to knowledge skills.
Edit: Similarly, why is Knowledge(Arcana) always used to identify an in-place spell effect? Even divine-only spells like Blade Barrier or Air Walk? Why is a Wizard better at identifying those effects than a Cleric?
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This has been brought up a few times in the skills category, but tended to pop up in separate thread with brief discussions rather than catching on as a single long thread. I don't know if that means no one cares or if it just seemed so obvious that discussion was unnecessary, but I'm bringing it up here again because in 4 days I won't be able to any more.
Thanks for doing so.
What you propose makes very clear sense to me. The current state of play is not very consistent thematically.
*bump*