Quote Originally Posted by Kish View Post
Not a typo. Let me rephrase that part.

I do not understand why the question, "Would Roy knowing how to use a sextant indicate points in some manner of knowledge skill?" would get any debate rather than just, "Yes, absolutely, unambiguously, obviously yes." If it doesn't--then good.
I see. In that case, I agree with you. I think he could easily have heard what it was from Hinjo, but knowing how to use it would probably require at least 1 skill rank of training. At least, if the DM were making logical rulings.

Moving back to Belkar's strength... we've got a problem.
In Snips, he doesn't have an 18 (max 17). We're not going to use that because it may have gone up.

But our proof for him not having an 19 (max 18) is here: http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0038.html

That was a *long* time ago.
That's sort of an issue which applies anytime we set a maximum based on a strip which took place at least 1 in-comic day ago. Unless we are certain their level has not gone up since we gained evidence about some maximum, we can't really set any upper bounds.