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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bagpuss" data-source="post: 1055151" data-attributes="member: 3987">So instead you make it a gamble on what the dice might roll? Surely the chance a character knowing something in a field they have knowledge of is not based on random chance but more on how much they have studied. Thus the higher their ranks in the skill the better.By making it a dice roll and not take 10 or 20, you end up with someone with 5 ranks in the skill (5 ranks is ment to be pretty competent, it gives a synergy bonus after all) would be out smarted by someone with no ranks on a fair number of occasions. With take 10 on knowledge skills you automatically reward the person who has invested ranks in those skills as if anyone is going to know they answer they will. A random roll an the person who has put ranks in the skill is going to think he's wasted his skill points when the guy next to him on a base INT check beats him due to a lucky roll.</blockquote>