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Message: <blockquote data-quote="iserith" data-source="post: 6815716" data-attributes="member: 97077">Short of having physical difficulties, there is no challenge in rolling dice. The challenge is in making decisions that lead to automatic success or at least to (statistically favorable) uncertainty. A DM doing what you suggest is not adjudicating properly in my view. The DC shouldn't go up simply because the warlock has a good bonus. The DC is based on how difficult the DM thinks it will be to achieve a goal given the player's stated approach.No, you do not. It just means that when there is an uncertain outcome to drawing upon one's knowledge, a character who is trained in those skills has a better chance of success given the same goal and approach than one who is not. Having the skills is also something of a fictional descriptor - "My guy/gal is good at these things because he/she was a sage before becoming an adventurer."</blockquote>