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Found it. Though, I slightly misremembered; if everyone in the group has a better than 50% chance of success on the task, then adding...

It’s not a new group check, it’s making your failure retroactively count as your contribution to the group check. You don’t get to...

There was another thread about this idea once before where the OP did the analysis, and the conclusion is what I’ve been saying, that...

This isn’t actually true. The way the math on group checks work is that the more characters are involved, the less likely they are to...

Add me to the (short, apparently) list of people already doing this. If someone tries and fails a check and someone wants a go too, I...

This is not a "rule", it's just an idea which can become part of the DM's "arsenal" of ways to grant or not grant checks. Whenever you...

This is why I usually use this “blended group check” idea for knowledge checks. That’s somewhere where I feel like the narrative is...

The idea is that once the third person is added, the two failures are retroactively considered to be part of the group check. So you...

So, killing off all of the villains in novels and surfing lizardmen, then? We're not forgetting the Prism Pentad exists, right? Also...

This is the way it should always be, IMO. I can talk about all the things I love about Dark Sun, but my Dark Sun is pretty much OBS +...

The thread wasn’t about rerolls, it was about using group checks to resolve when multiple characters attempt the same action.

Yep, this is also how I’ve started handling “do I know anything about [subject]?” checks. If one player makes the check, fine. If a...

This is a small idea that came to my mind, although I haven't needed to use it yet. It's based on my general fandom of group checks to...