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Originally Posted by Xplo
You haven't changed anything. There are still as many skills as there were before. Nothing whatsoever has been simplified. As I said before, all you did was sweep them under rugs.
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You save a lot of space by not making each science skill have its own separate paragraph in the skills chapter with its own copy of a very similar skill description and game effects. Much like we presently save space under the Thrown Weapon heading by not making Knife-Throwing, Axe-Throwing, Spear-Throwing, Boomerang, Shuriken, Darts, and so on into separate skill entries of their own.
And many of the sciences and other such skills that have their own segments in the skill chapter don't need them, just as we don't need separate entries for every possible interpretation of Professional Skill and Hobby Skill.
And of course there are always some skills so similar to each other that they might be better served with a merge on the game mechanical level anyway; Falconry and Animal Handling(Falcons), Shortsword and Broadsword, Tonfa and Shortsword, or Riding(Horse) and Animal Handling(Equines) as a few examples.