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Zero. The chance must be zero because otherwise they are are stepping on the"Divine Intervention" class ability of level 10+ Clerics. If even Clerics don't get this until L10, and even they have to roll percentile dice less than or equal to their level and may succeed only once a week, then why...

Arcana Domain 17 Death Domain 19 - 2 = 17 (Either don't exist or be available to PC's.) Forge Domain 29 Grave Domain 27 Knowledge Domain 22 Life Domain 19 + 1 = 20 Light Domain 28 Nature Domain 17 Order Domain 25 Protection Domain 25 Strength Domain 21 Tempest Domain 25 Trickery Domain 21 War...

They do get greater success BUT I think that slightly improved chances at harder tests is more dramatic than drastically improved success at a bunch of Easy tests. At some point their PC's are going to want to take the training wheels off of their bicycles.

I do the math based on whoever is best at the skill. My players almost always try to have every test done by the person with the biggest bonus. My Table Tracker lists every skill every PC is proficient (or Expert) in, so I know their approximate bonuses.

No, that's not what I meant. Medium is always a 10 but as the party increase in skill they will face fewer low DC challenges and more higher DC challenges. I do math ahead of time to estimate their chances, and then decide how many tests in this encounter will be DC 10, DC 15, DC 20, etc...

No, they do not, but when they do not they are making a mistake because when I selected the DC of the check I had to assume that they would use Guidance, because they often do. When they forget they are only hurting themselves. Similarly, if gaining Inspiration on any Nat 20 becomes a rule I...

Too long, didn't understand? Let me rephrase - "Players are supposed to do whatever the game lets them do. Therefore if One D&D lets players use Inspiration all the time then the game is now supposed to be about doing whatever it takes to have Inspiration."

In a good game anything the game lets you do is built into the math of the game. Therefore either D&D 5th and One D&D are not good games OR the players are supposed to spam Guidance on every single roll they can and it is already built into the math. Thus we can logically conclude that, in One...

Because Commoners have 4 hit points, and untrained brawlers of average strength rarely kill each other.

Without Crits, how can 200 Commoners with slings be a true challenge to my party of four L7 characters? The 10 per round who roll 20's will still auto-hit but for only 2 points each, not five. Will I need to use 400 Commoners instead? I don't have enough pennies to use as minis for 400 commoners.

Chairs are often made out of wood. Wood is AC15. Even if the DM is granting advantage to the attack because chairs do not have eyes and therefore they count as Blinded, a L1 character with a +5 to hit will still miss a chair over 20% of the time. Even a character with a +14 or more to hit would...

Because it creates a much, much more confrontational system in which any time a DM does not let a player roll for whatever they are doing the player will assume that the DM is deliberately nerfing their power. They will respond in a hostile manner, killing any fun the game had. I'm really not...

Custom Background - Bouncer - +2 CON, +1 WIS, Skills - Perception and Intimidation, Tool - Brewer's Supplies, Language - Dwarvish, Feat - Tavern Brawler "I used to be the bouncer at the Inn of the Welcome Wench. One day a whole squad of Draconians came in and started a brawl. I was doing fine...

That is what gnomes and halflings and Goblins and small Ardlings and small Tieflings and probably a few more are for. These days everyone but Humans, Dwarves and Harengon have pointy ears.

No Bard list, leave Bards as Arcane casters. Make Healing Word and Cure Wounds class spells for some kinds of Bards just as some current Clerics can pick up Fireball.

Real small humans need representation. There are no real elves of any size on Earth AFAIK, so there are no small elves who need representation. OTOH elves are noted for their genetic plasticity, so if you want some small elves just place their ancestors on an island, wait a few thousand years...

One D&D is a plot to increase d20 dice sales, by encouraging players to roll for everything, hoping for Inspiration, rather than simply using their Passive checks.

One D&D is proof the WOTC is finally thinking realistically about medieval demographics, hence the Farmer Background.

One D&D is a plot by Mat Mercer to make his house rule of natural ones being automatic failures and natural twenties being automatic successes the default!

Under the new system players will never want to use passive checks for anything unless they already have Inspiration. The DM will have to deal with players who want to make separate Investigation checks of every five foot square of the entire dungeon, or maybe even the entire wilderness, because...