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The Dice Giveth... (lemmy.world)

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[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah and free parking jackpots break monopoly by making the game run for hours

Failed skill checks on 1 break d&d by making skilled people fail regularly just as less skilled people do. I also play in the Palladium system where skill checks are on percentile dice and also don't fail on a minimum roll

One of the things I don't like about BG3 is that the rogue with godlike sneak can't get far with greater invisibility because everything they touch gives a 1/20 chance of being heard

When I roll a d&d skill I call out the total. A 1 might be 6 or 10. I'm not participating in rewriting the basic rules of the game

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

If you can't fail a skill check, there should be no roll. Same as most DMs won't make you do a skill check for "I sit down on a chair".

Rolling dice implies that there's a chance of failure.

Failed skill checks on 1 break d&d by making skilled people fail regularly just as less skilled people do.

Nope. 1/20 is much less regular than 5/20 or even 19/20. More skill doesn't mean it always works, only that your chances are higher. And if you are skilled enough that it always works, then there should be no roll.

[–] macmacfire@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The problem with this argument is that first off, the GM can't know your character sheet front-to-back because they're not playing your character, so they probably don't know if even a 1 will pass the DC they've set.

1/20 is much less regular than 5/20 or even 19/20

It's still far more common than is reasonable.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The problem with this argument is that first off, the GM can’t know your character sheet front-to-back because they’re not playing your character, so they probably don’t know if even a 1 will pass the DC they’ve set.

The GM should know exceptional stats of their player. Yes, I might not know some rarely relevant stat of my players, I but surely know how well the rogue stealths, how well the elf bowman arches, how well the mage spells and how hard the barbarian hits.

And even if I don't, the players can tell me the stat before a potential check.

[–] macmacfire@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I just think whether or not each and every player here has an outrageously high stat and what those stats are is a bit of an unnecessary hassle to add to the already long list of things the GM needs to keep track of.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I find that not very hard to keep track, honestly. They usually don't have a lot of them.

And in any case, the player can just say when they have one.