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The_Laughing_Man

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What other skills are there in addition to PHB ones?
« on: July 12, 2011, 04:51:05 PM »
Player characters usually allocate their skill points to skills. I began wondering what other skills are there in addition to the PHB ones? By skills I mean skills that one can allocate skill points to.

Perhaps they could prove useful to me  :plotting  You can also post your opinion whether these skills are good or not.

Here is a list I have so far:

Expanded Psionics Handbook p.35:
autohypnosis
knowledge (psionics)
psicraft
use psionic device

Tome of Battle p.27:
martial lore

Tome of Magic p.195:
truespeak

Unearthed Arcana:
Knowledge (Forbidden Lore) p.198
Knowledge (Mental Therapy) p.202

I'm sure there are more skills out there that I don't know about. So please share your knowledge!

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Re: What other skills are there in addition to PHB ones?
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2011, 06:06:13 PM »
Factotum's Handbook skills post has it all I think, except for Lucid Dreaming (Manual of the Planes) and Handle Humanoid. Perhaps there's some others, though not to my knowledge.
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Re: What other skills are there in addition to PHB ones?
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2011, 06:39:27 PM »
Thanks Shiki! That handbook has some obscure skills :)

Control Shape, MM p.303
Iaijutsu Focus, OA p.58

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Re: What other skills are there in addition to PHB ones?
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2011, 09:56:45 PM »
Don't forget Knowledge (Gemology) to qualify for Crystal Master.

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Re: What other skills are there in addition to PHB ones?
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2011, 08:11:10 AM »
Do you know where the skill description for Knowledge (Gemology) is?

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Re: What other skills are there in addition to PHB ones?
« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2011, 10:24:21 AM »
I can't say, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was made up just for that class. Right before the list of knowledges in the SRD, it states:

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Below are listed typical fields of study.

So, in theory, there are an infinite number of Knowledges, but depending on the DM and campaign, some will be much more useful than others.
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Re: What other skills are there in addition to PHB ones?
« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2011, 02:41:16 PM »
I'd have to say even though I've read that page many, many times I did not notice that! But yeah there seems to be no limit for the amount of knowledge skills.

My best guess is that the description for the Knowledge (Gemology) is somewhere hidden in the Mind's Eye articles.

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Re: What other skills are there in addition to PHB ones?
« Reply #7 on: July 13, 2011, 07:32:07 PM »
I'd have to say even though I've read that page many, many times I did not notice that! But yeah there seems to be no limit for the amount of knowledge skills.

My best guess is that the description for the Knowledge (Gemology) is somewhere hidden in the Mind's Eye articles.
I've certainly never seen it.

Basically the skill is used to throw away skill points to take the PrC.
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Re: What other skills are there in addition to PHB ones?
« Reply #8 on: August 30, 2011, 03:47:39 PM »
Don't forget about skill tricks.
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Re: What other skills are there in addition to PHB ones?
« Reply #9 on: August 30, 2011, 03:50:44 PM »
I'd have to say even though I've read that page many, many times I did not notice that! But yeah there seems to be no limit for the amount of knowledge skills.

My best guess is that the description for the Knowledge (Gemology) is somewhere hidden in the Mind's Eye articles.
I've certainly never seen it.

Basically the skill is used to throw away skill points to take the PrC.

Agreed. It's one of the infamous "obscure knowledge skills" which exist mainly to eliminate the usefulness of Knowledge as a skill. If your wizard has put 5-10 ranks in every skill in the book, he has every right to hit the GM with the PHB when she says "Anyone have Knowledge: Avatars? No? Then noone recognizes this godling."

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Re: What other skills are there in addition to PHB ones?
« Reply #10 on: August 31, 2011, 11:19:51 AM »
Way we work it, is if you have knowledge(dungeoneering) or knowledge(geography), you'll be as knowledgeable as you need to be in identifying rocks.

If you bother putting points into specific, normally unlisted things like Knowledge(Gemology) you'll be exceptional at it.

Particularly for things like Craft where not everything is listed and things overlap, so you might wind up with someone with craft(metalworking), someone else with craft(silversmithing) and yet another person with craft(jewelry), we have to improvise a bit...