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Originally Posted by Jhaelen  It's not THAT easy to pick DCs to ensure they'll automatically be passed (or failed) using Take 10/20. Aid another, items, powers, rituals, etc. can be used to boost skill checks in ways you may not have anticipated. |
When I said, "it means you decide whether they succeed based on the skill bonus rather than by rolling", I didn't mean to say that the DM is deciding the outcome of the skill check while writing the adventure (if you wanted to do that, why allow a skill check at all?). I simply meant that Take 20 is the same thing as saying, "If the players perform a standard search of the room, they find the secret door if any character has a perception bonus of at least +13".
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