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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dalamar" data-source="post: 1285852" data-attributes="member: 358">But because performing a surgery would be an application of the Heal skill and skills don't have automatic successes/failures (only attack rolls and saving throws do), this isn't technically a valid reason to move from 1d20 to 2d10.Secondly, you can Take 10 even if there is a chance for a Bad Thing(tm) happening. From the 3.5 PHB, p.65 under Taking 10: "When your character is not being threatened or distracted, you may choose to take 10." They even use Climb, on which failing by 5 or more means you fall, as the example skill on taking 10. Only taking 20 is impossible if failure brings unfavorable results.Edit: Seems FireLance posted the same thing about skill success/taking 10 while I was counting the chances on rolling 12 or over with 2d10.And the counting of success probability gets a lot harder with 2d10. Lets use an example of scoring a success against DC 16 with a +4 total bonus.d20: 16-4=12, so that's how high I need to roll, since every every side of a d20 has 5% chance to come up, I have a 45% chance to score a success.2d10: 16-4=12, so the total of my two dice needs to be that high. Lets see... the dice could come up 10 and 2, 10 and 3, 10 and 4 etc, garnering 9 chances out of 56 (the number of different combinations if you don't take into account the order in which the dice are looked at), or they could come up 9 and 3, 9 and 4, 9 and 5 etc but discounting the chance of 9 and 10 since we already figured that in, garnering 7 chances out of 56 for a total of 16 chances so far. Of course, the dice could land 8 and 4, 8 and 5 etc, but discounting '8 and 9' as well as '8 and 10' since those were already counted, increasing the chance by 5. Finally it comes to 24 possibilities out of 56, or roughly 43%. Yes, a lot easier to count (unless you have some kind of formula that I'm not aware of).</blockquote>

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