First Aid Feat

[c_osborne]

Can anyone tell me the purpose of the First Aid feat? If medical skill is available to all classes, why would anyone waste a feat to get Medical-0 when they can spend a single skill point to get Medical-1? I'm guessing the intent was that First Aid might be a pre-requisite for medical skill, but that isn't stated anywhere. Thanks.

 

[veltyen]

T/med isn't available to all classes, and as a trained only skill you need to buy level 0.

So you may need to spend up to 2 skill points to get the equivalent ability.

The feat probably should do more as it is mostly pointless at the moment for the reason you point out. Possibly it should count as T/Med 5 but only for emergency response (not nursing, surgery, disease treatment or pharmacological analysis).