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In Pathfinder 2E, for example, if you use Recall Knowledge in a combat to learn something about a monster and critically fail. You learn...

Again, this tends to be less pronounced when the system involved doesn't have massive swing in it. You also can frame things about the...

Eh. I'm finishing up a 13th Age campaign, and 13th Age uses Backgrounds rather than skills (which is to say its pretty big and lumpy)...

Which is why I don't have them make the actual die roll until the information is relevant and would probably be obvious in its lack.

Well, that's just skill lumping/splitting questions which is, I think, a bit of a different discussion than not using them at all.

But the problem is, some failures won't reveal that. You'll find out you've got it wrong--when you find it out. Missing information is...

I'll have to give SotWW a look in that regard. That's usually heavily wrapped around either spells (which SotWW does fairly differently...

I'd have to do the "I know it when I see it" situation, and there'd be all kinds of ways for people to (legitimately) tell me I was full...

I might call those opinions "underinformed" instead of "idiosyncratic," but I'm not inclined to argue hard about it.

There are so many people out there who appear to have never played with a second DM or played games made after five years after they...

Well, I don't tend to use prewritten adventures, so that wouldn't even occur to me. I was thinking more in terms of what impact just...

That's fair, that's fair.

It tends to be the way I do it too; after all, how would you know if you'd correctly got the information other than checking, and if you...

In some cases I postpone the roll. For example, in trying to forge a document it can be assumed the PC keeps at it until they think...

Sure. I was just noting that just eliminating skills isn't always the simple solution; there's probably other overhead you need to do.