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<blockquote data-quote="iserith" data-source="post: 8806205" data-attributes="member: 97077">They do more than imply actually - they state this outright. Or rather, they lay out the conditions when a roll might occur and when automatic success might be granted instead.It's certainly an action, but it's not necessarily an Action, unless the DM says so.Yes, it is! (Or can be, depending on how long a DM rules the task takes.)In my game, picking a lock is 10 minutes in the context of an exploration challenge. You simply can't unlock a lock in combat unless you're a thief. I further rule that a thief in an exploration challenge can both pick a lock and do some other task in that time span like keep watch for danger or search for traps, whereas most characters can only perform one task in that time frame. All that to say, it's useful in my view to check one's assumptions about what are rules and what are rulings. It's easy to present a ruling as if it's a rule, particularly if it's been in use for a while.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="iserith, post: 8806205, member: 97077"] They do more than imply actually - they state this outright. Or rather, they lay out the conditions when a roll might occur and when automatic success might be granted instead. It's certainly an [I]action[/I], but it's not necessarily an [I]Action[/I], unless the DM says so. Yes, it is! (Or can be, depending on how long a DM rules the task takes.) In my game, picking a lock is 10 minutes in the context of an exploration challenge. You simply can't unlock a lock in combat unless you're a thief. I further rule that a thief in an exploration challenge can both pick a lock and do some other task in that time span like keep watch for danger or search for traps, whereas most characters can only perform one task in that time frame. All that to say, it's useful in my view to check one's assumptions about what are rules and what are rulings. It's easy to present a ruling as if it's a rule, particularly if it's been in use for a while. [/QUOTE]

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