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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herremann the Wise" data-source="post: 4701163" data-attributes="member: 11300">Hello Aus_Snow,It seems like what you are talking about here is comboing the skills limiting it to the modifier of the lesser skill. For example, Let's say a door to a bedroom is locked with the occupant of the room sleeping. The character in question wishes to unlock the door quietly - or if you like quietly unlock the door. Now let's say the character's open lock is +12 but their move silently is +8. Let's say the DC on the lock is 20, but the DC of the move silently is opposed by the sleeping occupant.Now what you could do is a check for each. However, the aim of the capping is to turn two checks into one. As such, you could roll the listen of the sleeping occupant to give a DC of 13 (not re-rolling it but keeping it as a static DC for the "encounter"). With the capping system, the character would be limited by their move silently more so than their open lock so they use the +8 for the combo check. Now if the PC rolls a 12 or better, they have opened the door without the sleeper noticing. If the PC rolls between 6 and 11, they have not opened the door but they also have not woken the sleeper. If the PC rolls a 5 or less, then they have both failed to open the door and woken the sleeper. Problem 1: There is no possiblility of opening the door but also waking the occupant. This could be interpreted in the absolute determination of not making a noise as you try to trick the lock.Problem 2: I've made up the modifiers and DCs to produce a pretty optimal scenario. In the reality of disparate modifiers, you might end up with some pretty whacky scenarios if one modifier was significantly greater than the other. Perhaps the use of generous circumstance bonuses to up the lower modifier could alleviate this?Anyway, just some thoughts to help push the discussion along. I think the mechanic shows promise.Best RegardsHerremann the Wise</blockquote>

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