You're still missing Expertise. It gives you an extra +2 to any two skills that you have proficiency in. I probably should've insisted on doing chargen in live chat, it's<em>much</em>easier to explain this stuff in real time.<br/><br/>In any case, second question: Lost Mines of Phandelver can be quite lethal for small parties. Four or five seems about the sweet spot and we're two short of that. You guys want to have some friends along for the ride or try your luck alone or what? Not all of the encounters are the sort of thing that would be easy or sensible to scale downwards, so I'm not sure how well that approach would work.