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Message: <blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 8647935" data-attributes="member: 71699">That's true. I make the assumption (result bullet-point 1.) that the player-characters have intentions behind attempting to open the safe, i.e. that opening it will have consequences that matter to them. Mabye their hungry for gold and missing out on that gold will put them in a pickle. Maybe an incriminating document is in the safe.My take is currently that - per the rules just further down on DMG 237 - uncertainty alone ends up not really at issue. When the only cost is time, a character succeeds by spending ten-times the time. That results in cases where the outcome is in doubt, but you still don't roll because there is no meaningful consequence.That is what led me toward characterising it as consequence-resolution. I've seen folk stop at the PHB 174 text and understand uncertainty to be what is most at issue. The way it lands taken together with DMG 237 is on consequences.</blockquote>