Inquisitor should have Linguistics and my reasons why.

[The Bane Company]

I would think the ability to detect forgeries would be vital to an Inquisitor. Same with the ability to learn more languages seeing as how to find the truth usually requires listening in on all kinds of people.

I'd say that creating forgeries might also be something that a Inquisitor might do, in case he needs to get in a place that would require documents.

Instead of waiting in line for hours at the Pathfinder DMV office to apply for the credentials to get in to a place, he forges one, gets in, doesn't tip anyone off that he's there, especially if they know his name and that he is an inquisitor and have been ducking him for the 5 dollars he's been skimming from the local church offerings every week. That and I think it would work really well with the disguise skill. Make a disguise, make documents that make you look official. Presto. You're Officer Inconspicuous just checking the crime scene, givin' it a once over for the chief back at the station two towns over. Who's going to check? One town over maybe, but two?

What do you guys and gals think?

[Xpltvdeleted]

The Bane Company wrote:

I would think the ability to detect forgeries would be vital to an Inquisitor. Same with the ability to learn more languages seeing as how to find the truth usually requires listening in on all kinds of people.

I'd say that creating forgeries might also be something that a Inquisitor might do, in case he needs to get in a place that would require documents.

Instead of waiting in line for hours at the Pathfinder DMV office to apply for the credentials to get in to a place, he forges one, gets in, doesn't tip anyone off that he's there, especially if they know his name and that he is an inquisitor and have been ducking him for the 5 dollars he's been skimming from the local church offerings every week. That and I think it would work really well with the disguise skill. Make a disguise, make documents that make you look official. Presto. You're Officer Inconspicuous just checking the crime scene, givin' it a once over for the chief back at the station two towns over. Who's going to check? One town over maybe, but two?

What do you guys and gals think?

I am in total agreement. I see the Inquisitor as a field interrogater...so when your subject gives the "no habla ingles!" line, you switch to their language and bam! (or you bring out the thumbscrews).

Information without knowledge is worthless and if you get the information you need but don't know the language it's in, then you might as well not have it.

Also i hadn't thought about the doc forgeries...that description of them makes em sound kinda like the Templars from Deadlands: Hell on Earth.

[Santiago Mendez]

Don't forget that in Pathfinder anyone can put ranks into any skill, it being a class skill just gives the +3 training bonus. I agree that it seems like a skill they would have training in but don't forget anyone can learn languages for just putting ranks into it even if it is not a class skill.

[The Bane Company]

Santiago Mendez wrote:

Don't forget that in Pathfinder anyone can put ranks into any skill, it being a class skill just gives the +3 training bonus. I agree that it seems like a skill they would have training in but don't forget anyone can learn languages for just putting ranks into it even if it is not a class skill.

Good point although I still think it should be a class skill. Sometimes documents will be in a language you don't know or even worse, it's in code or something exotic which requires some pretty high DC's. That +3 could help a lot especially when your only other option is to blow a feat or pick a trait that doesn't necessarily fit your character. I think we have all been there at one time or another.

Also, an Inquisitor should never be fooled by a forgery. :D

[Santiago Mendez]

Don't get me wrong I think it should be a class skill as well. I was just saying that as is it is not unreachable.

[Chris Dominic]

Santiago Mendez wrote:

Don't get me wrong I think it should be a class skill as well. I was just saying that as is it is not unreachable.

I agree that it is not unreachable but it is -as it seems to be the point of view of everyone in this thread- total senseless to take away linguistic as a class skill.