Archaelogist (bard archetype) question...

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Im just wondering why disable device does not become a class skill if you take this archetype?

[GeraintElberion]

Question wrote:

Im just wondering why disable device does not become a class skill if you take this archetype?

Because reading a lot of books in dimly lit rooms does not mkae you good at traps? Because slowly seiving earth that has already been scraped over carefully by a person with a trowel and a brush does not prepare you to disable devices? Because carefully washing, recording and cataloguing small pieces of pottery does not prepare you to dismantle traps in a dungeon?

Or, because Indiana Jones sets off loads of traps.

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That aside i just find it odd that giving a archetype a bonus to a skill doesnt make that a class skill for him.

[GeraintElberion]

Question wrote:

That aside i just find it odd that giving a archetype a bonus to a skill doesnt make that a class skill for him.

Better than other bards but not as good as a rogue?

[ElyasRavenwood]

I suppose you could take the Vagabond child trait, and add the Disable Device skill to your skill list.

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ElyasRavenwood wrote:

I suppose you could take the Vagabond child trait, and add the Disable Device skill to your skill list.

Or i could just play a rogue...i thought the archealogist would be a bard that has a self only bardic performance buff, but could still cast spells to aid the party with limited rogue abilities in case nobody wanted to play a rogue. Well, it IS kind of like that, but the lack of it being a class skill is decidefully odd.

But aside from the spellcasting i would say a rogue is definately better in many ways.