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<blockquote data-quote="Irda Ranger" data-source="post: 4498958" data-attributes="member: 1003">Lacking? I guess that depends on what you're looking for. A person who is exercising their theory of mind muscles by pretending to be someone else will often find rolling d20+Int+1/2 level to be lacking.A person who playing at negotiating a contract for release with the raiders who took them captive will often find rolling d20+Chr+1/2 level to be lacking.If you fail a Str check to Open Doors, do you want to roll an Int check so the DM can tell you to use the statue of the Baron Crozy as a battering ram, or would you rather figure that out yourself? There's no wrong answer to that question, but it is the difference (I think) between Old School and the style of play you are suggesting.---As for the puzzle the DM handed you, please don't take it literally.&nbsp; It's an abstract representation of the puzzle your 18 Int character is actually solving. The real puzzle is much harder, but the DM has scaled it down for you to present an equivalent level of difficulty. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Irda Ranger, post: 4498958, member: 1003"] Lacking? I guess that depends on what you're looking for. A person who is exercising their theory of mind muscles by pretending to be someone else will often find rolling d20+Int+1/2 level to be lacking. A person who playing at negotiating a contract for release with the raiders who took them captive will often find rolling d20+Chr+1/2 level to be lacking. If you fail a Str check to Open Doors, do you want to roll an Int check so the DM can tell you to use the statue of the Baron Crozy as a battering ram, or would you rather figure that out yourself? There's no wrong answer to that question, but it is the difference (I think) between Old School and the style of play you are suggesting. --- As for the puzzle the DM handed you, please don't take it literally. It's an abstract representation of the puzzle your 18 Int character is actually solving. The real puzzle is much harder, but the DM has scaled it down for you to present an equivalent level of difficulty. ;) [/QUOTE]

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