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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 1056131" data-attributes="member: 259">Why is that weird?  That is, I think, precisely the POINT of the mechanic.Give me a DC 15 database design issue, and I'm gonna succeed at it on my first try.  I *know* how to solve DC 15 database design problems; if I'm not distracted or threatened, I'm going to use the solutions that I know, and every single time I'll get it right (provided, of course, that I proofread -- but that's part of database design, so I'm gonna proofread).People with expertise in other fields are going to be the same way.  If you bake croissants every day, it's not like you have to throw out 1/3 of your batches of croissants:  no, you get it right every day, with an insignificant number of failures.  If you walk a tightrope in the circus every day, you get to the point where, weird conditions aside, you succeed every single time you do it.  If you make horseshoes every day, you get into a rhythm which is very rarely broken by failure.That's what taking 10 represents:  it represents doing an everyday job of a task at which you're competent.(And yes, Columbus didn't land in the United States -- obviously, I shoulda taken 10 at coming up with my examples <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )Daniel</blockquote>

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