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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7249325" data-attributes="member: 996">If you want the player's action to have a 5% chance of failure, set the DC accordingly.  Maybe it'll be 9 or 7 instead of 10.  It's entirely in your purview to do so. Depends on the dragon, they're not all AC 23+ I recall seeing a designer quoted as saying that was exactly what they had in mind.  You could toe-to-toe or cast a dragon to death if you were high enough level, but if you could gather enough determined archers together, you could also defeat it that way.   Narrating success or failure or call for a check is right there in the most basic take on the resolution system in the DMG. Everything's optional.  The passage you quoted was advice.   No, DM fiat is removed, at the DM's discretion, and replaced by BA - when he calls for a check. <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    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Semantics!  Seriously, though, bounded accuracy is about checks, and checks happen when the DM calls for them.  Not calling for them when you don't want at least a 5% chance of failure (or success) isn't overriding them, it's just DMing.   He can if he wishes. The system simply doesn't begin to work until the DM begins making rulings.  Calling for a check is a ruling, success/failure, is a ruling.  No DM, no ruling, no system.  The DM is integral to resolution this time around.If you're OK ruling something impossible in the face of a table giving a fixed DC for the action in question, and a player who's bonus alone overwhelms that DC, why would you have an issue with it in a system that tells you to rule success, failure, or call for a check?  You can get a +11 to a check, a +17 with Expertise.  That doesn't overwhelm the d20.  The 20th level expert can fail a check that an ordinary warm body might succeed at.  (specifically, while rolling a 1, while the warm body rolls a 19, but it's still not quite overwhelmed). In 5e, he's required to make that determination every time.   It makes for better 5e games if you can convincingly feign infallibility from behind the screen.  <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    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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