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and Athletics gives you ability to throw the orc corpse further down the hallway for setting off traps, keeping you safer from AoE traps :p
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Yes. Absolutely, though Acrobatics also allows you to flip under the trap blade that come out of the wall, bound across a river on...
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Okay. You made it sound like any clever roleplay couldn't reveal what you didn't find with a perception roll. I see perception as...
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sure, it's idea outside the roll. Roll is there for what players did not come up by themselves. disable device or whatever could be...
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Survival would not tell you about what is dangerous to eat or touch. It's about natural hazards like recognizing unstable rocks or...
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The biggest takeaway, other than the impressive size of the collection, is that there is a Dallas box set.
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So if the outline of the trapdoor was possible to be seen in the rug and the perception failed, you would not allow the PC to lift the...
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I don't agree. The differences are distinct enough and we already have too much blending of skills. Getting rid of one more wouldn't...
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That's a house rule, though. lore is explicitly Nature. By RAW, nature is used to know about that fruit. If you look at the skills...
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I cant count the times in real life i've had to step in for one of my meathead friends and reexplain what they were saying. So this...
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That's excellent roleplaying. People very rarely sit silently while one person does all of the talking everywhere they go. Everyone...
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Edit: For those hoping for context, he is referring to the moral of the story "The Boy Who Cried Wolf"
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Depends on how you run the skills. For me perception is to notice things right out of the gate. You walk into a room and look around...
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Giving it a bit of thought, I would rule it something like this: Action - Force Morale. Make an Intimidate check DC=8+ the CR of...
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I get the appeal of a system like this, but it really wouldn't work for me. I'm one of those DMs who looks at 1) who the person(s)...
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