Athletics Skill, is it still crucial for every character?

[Hamhaus]

POE1 has this thing where every character in the party should have a least 4 Athletics to pass the skill checks involving the entire party performing athletic feats.

 

Is this still a thing in Deadfire? or is it possible for a character to have 0 in Athletics and not suffer any repercussions?

[Infiltrator_SF]

Athletics is really good in combat for those "oh ****" scenarios where you can casually just insta-heal without any recovery.

[Maxzero]

While you can get party for some of the checks a number of them are Watcher only.

[Owlbear]

5+ points on athletics looks like a must have, I just tried to climb up on a fortress wall and one of my companions failed with 4 points so ended up with 2 wounds after the fall. :D

[Melusina]

I suggest you make 15 mig or 2 survival charname, otherwise you will be unable to rescue Irrena (sp.?) during the helping hands quest.

[knownastherat]

I suggest you make 15 mig or 2 survival charname, otherwise you will be unable to rescue Irrena (sp.?) during the helping hands quest.

 

Let Eder talk to her. Apparently, he is romantic