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I go so far as to make thieves tools able to disarm magical traps, using intelligence. Ofc the disarmer doesn't know what they're...

And this plays pretty much straight into @Benjamin Olson's point. Because, as a player, you never really know if THIS encounter is DM...

I find DMs create a DC based on a situation and how a fight is going and the good DMs are good at doing this. Hired mercenaries in it...

Acrobatics Animal Handling Arcana Athletics Deception History Insight Intimidation Investigation Medicine Nature Perception Performance...

But just based on what's in the PHB, nobody ever tries feats of legerdemain...? I think what this thread really demonstrates is that...

Really? Yeah, my players are not like that at all. I haven't seen players try to randomly steal stuff since high school.

Yeah its seems that a lot of people are doing Urban heist games hence the top tier given to Slight of Hand and Investigation and Social...

Odd, I've not seen anyone use Animal Handling in the four campaigns I've been in so far.

A ton. Survival tells you nothing about plants, terrain lore, animals, the weather, and natural cycles. Survival is for things like...

Why animal handling so good?

I’m surprised people haven’t ranked Survival higher. The tracking element alone would make it more useful I would have thought.

I suppose if you were supernaturally fast. Like 5x faster than a normal human, you might be able to untie your pouch, fish around for...

You realize we're talking about how long it would REALLY take, not about the rules, right? Only heavy crossbow loading takes anywhere...

Thank you for proving my point. Half of the 6 second is just drinking the thing. That leaves 3 seconds to open a tied pouch, find the...

Yep. A pouch you will have to untie, unless you've lost all the potions because you left it open, then find the one you are looking...