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| category = Hunting and Combat
| topic = River's Rest Hunting Areas
| author = GS4-OSCURO
| subject = Re: Skinning Chimera and Necrotic Snakes
| date = 11/29/2008 7:22:07 PM
| messagenum = 511
}}
<i>>>So I recently got my [[Cleric]]'s [[First Aid|First aid]] to fully doubled (I'm [[level]] 46, so 96 ranks in First Aid). I kneel, I use a [[dagger]], and I'd say 80% of the time I still get pricked, and I can only skin about 60% of the critters, while the [[Adventurer's Guild]] asks me for exceptional quality skins. Maybe one in 30 of my skins is exceptional.

>>What is up with this? Why is this stuff so difficult to skin. I've trained pretty heavily for it, everything I can do except get Survival. Is 2x FA 1x Survival, or for Empaths 3x FA, just required to skin these guys well or what?? And if so, I think that's a bit crazy since the only form of cash that one can make from the snakes is their fangs.</i>

[[Rotting chimera|Chimeras]] and [[Necrotic snake|snakes]] are both rated as "above average skinning difficulty." This is due to their more valuable skins. [[Tomb troll]]s and [[Tomb troll necromancer|necromancers]] are rated as "easy," just FYI.

The pricking oneself mechanic is not based on First Aid. [[Survival]] training and the [[Skinning (604)|Skinning spell]] will provide protection against it. Once you've been pricked, you are subjected to a (hidden) poison check, which incorporates things like First Aid, CON, [[Physical Fitness|Physical Training]], the [[Poison Resist (105)]] spell, etc. Getting pricked or not has no bearing on chance to skin or the quality of the skin.

- GM Oscuro

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| category = General GemStone IV Discussion
| topic = Game Systems
| author = GS4-OSCURO
| subject = SKINning daggers
| date = 06/23/2020 10:58 PM CDT
| messagenum = 596
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Previously, daggers with the specific noun of "knife" received a higher bonus to skinning than any other item. We've just updated all daggers to receive this bonus instead so people are free to customize the appearance of their daggers as they choose.

GameMaster Oscuro

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