"How am I so wealthy and powerful, you ask? Allow me to let you in on a little secret. It's only PCs that have to sell their items at half the book value. As a trusted merchant, I get to flog them at full retail price, and I pass the savings on to me!"
True. Dnd skills are soo generalized and bland. Roll a 20 (with a million ways to get pluses and advanage) to simply solve any problem.
For real
Then the story develops from what the PCs actually do in the game, over time. And then, the PCs organically develop goals they want to pursue so you sprinkle those in.
Or maybe they're made for those of us who wish to roleplay characters who have different skills and life experiences from ourselves and be able to express that without method acting our way through things and actually learn 20 years of 15th century sailing knowledge to play a sailor who is good at the boat things?
Exactly
That will work for some people. Me? Boooring. I've never really enjoyed exploring dungeons, at least not for a long, long time. For me I need more.
