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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 9059739" data-attributes="member: 6801845"><p>The players will never "waste" a roll in my game. They're not going to ever fail something that was going to succeed anyway. </p><p></p><p>If someone is picking a lock, there's no amount of description on how they're doing it that will change anything. Trying to determine if someone is being honest will always be an insight check, trying to remember historical significance a history check, etc. They're not going to describe a how they're doing a religion check by doing the watusi. If they declare for an acrobatics check to climb a sheer cliff, I'll just l remind them that it's an athletics check. </p><p></p><p>How else do you describe things like insight, history, religion or several other things other than doing what it says on the tin? Because there's no value to me to saying "I watch them intently to try to decipher eye movement, patterns of speech and hesitations to determine if they're being honest" when "insight check 15?" accomplishes the same thing.</p><p></p><p>As far as the number on the die I just remind people that you don't automatically succeed on a nat 20 or automatically fail on a 1 for skill checks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 9059739, member: 6801845"] The players will never "waste" a roll in my game. They're not going to ever fail something that was going to succeed anyway. If someone is picking a lock, there's no amount of description on how they're doing it that will change anything. Trying to determine if someone is being honest will always be an insight check, trying to remember historical significance a history check, etc. They're not going to describe a how they're doing a religion check by doing the watusi. If they declare for an acrobatics check to climb a sheer cliff, I'll just l remind them that it's an athletics check. How else do you describe things like insight, history, religion or several other things other than doing what it says on the tin? Because there's no value to me to saying "I watch them intently to try to decipher eye movement, patterns of speech and hesitations to determine if they're being honest" when "insight check 15?" accomplishes the same thing. As far as the number on the die I just remind people that you don't automatically succeed on a nat 20 or automatically fail on a 1 for skill checks. [/QUOTE]
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