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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silveras" data-source="post: 1623672" data-attributes="member: 6271">The problem is, you are looking at it incorrectly. You are saying, if I read your post correctly, that because you are rolling you are allowing the DM to have a chance to affect your character.Wrong. The chance exists because D&D is a game of probabilities. Very little is certain, most things are based on "chances are". PCs have a base 50/50 chance to hit an unarmored, average person at 1st level, modified by their skill/luck/divine favor (BAB), Ability scores, the quality of the weapon used, and so on. Likewise, PCs have a 40/60 succeed/fail chance to resist poisons, diseases, etc. (assuming DC 13), modified by their ability scores and increasing skill/luck/divine favor (Base Save Bonus). In the end, though, these are probabilities. The numbers may become quite high (you have 54 chances in 65, or you have 112 chances in 118), but they remain chances, not certainties. The die roll is used to check whether the extremely-rare-but-possible event has happened, or whether the very-likely-but-not-quite-certain result actually did happen.</blockquote>