I will just cross the bridge with my non-combat skills then go back and kill all the bandits for maxim xp, i hope i can do this without penalties.
Also at the end of the game i don`t want to be master of all non-combat skills, i mean if you can have them all maxed out there is not much of a choice but in what order you get them and i think this is a bad system that will kill replayability.
Also will be very hard to balance Lock Pick with others non-combat skills, i think is the most used skill in most games of this type due the great rewards that come with it.