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<blockquote data-quote="Fifth Element" data-source="post: 5927927" data-attributes="member: 48135">I don't have a problem with this, at least in the sense that I've never found fighting kobolds to be exciting.Aside from the very valid &quot;this ain't the real world&quot; argument, there are things that are effectively automatic successes. For some things, you can have a 99.9% chance of success. But this cannot be modeled with the variability of a d20 roll, so auto success is much better than having a minimum 5% chance of failure for everything.I think it's a good move to remove rolls like this. Save the rolling for the challenging tasks. Take 10 and take 20 from 3E are excellent rules, because they eliminate needless rolling.Even 3E does not agree, since a 1 is not an auto-failure on a skill check.No, forcing players to roll a die for every darn thing is boring.This has been corrected already, but a negative damage result has never meant that it heals the character, ever.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fifth Element, post: 5927927, member: 48135"] I don't have a problem with this, at least in the sense that I've never found fighting kobolds to be exciting. Aside from the very valid "this ain't the real world" argument, there are things that are effectively automatic successes. For some things, you can have a 99.9% chance of success. But this cannot be modeled with the variability of a d20 roll, so auto success is much better than having a minimum 5% chance of failure for everything. I think it's a good move to remove rolls like this. Save the rolling for the challenging tasks. Take 10 and take 20 from 3E are excellent rules, because they eliminate needless rolling. Even 3E does not agree, since a 1 is not an auto-failure on a skill check. No, forcing players to roll a die for every darn thing is boring. This has been corrected already, but a negative damage result has never meant that it heals the character, ever. [/QUOTE]

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