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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8271146" data-attributes="member: 93670">you absolutely can, but it depends on the lock & you would know at a glance if it was something you should bother with.  The way lockpicking is handled by d&d is just silly & it's made worse  by omitting any sort of trivial electronic/computer (ie arcane) measures built in as a meaningful component.  Locks in every setting but eberron sigil & maybe some of darksun/ravenloft where pre-cleansing locks & magically enhanced mechanisms might be in use are comparable to a period where locks were largely a status symbol to show you could afford one or little more than something to keep polite people out.  In fact <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_pgED-wBpA" target="_blank">this lock</a> is centuries more advanced than anything in d&d not backed up by arcane components due to the comparably extreme high precision* involved in the construction.  Arcane lock mechanisms, possibly involving runes & sigils engraved with jeweler's tools or similar, really need the same sort of structured thing as the how to bribe a guard & how to handle stealth as more than pass/fail  being discussed.  Your jeweler's tools proficiency might even include knowledge required to build arcane locks wards & enchantments into jewelry locks & so on even if done by rote copying of a schematic you don't understand* That's not meant as sarcasm,</blockquote>