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<blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 6993953" data-attributes="member: 6701872">I definitely agree that giving characters a chance at failing things that make them look like idiots to fail, such as answering &quot;...is that a bear?&quot; when there is a bear in sight, is a thing that shouldn't be done.That's a large part of why I don't roll dice for anything if failure would not be interesting. Extending how literally everyone (hopefully, at least) doesn't call for dice rolls to avoid tripping every time a character walks somewhere to many other activities.It's also why I think that, assuming insistence upon monster knowledge ever involving dice rolls, there should be a fairly extensive list of monster facts for which their is no check.As for setting DCs, I think there is a trend suggesting that the people that believe a roll should be made are also opposed to those rolls being easy for untrained characters to succeed at, so they set the DC for even the basics high enough that you need a decent modifier to the check in order to get noticeably better odds than a coin toss. I theorize that it is the fault of 3.X - being the first edition to assign specific DCs for important activities, and setting those DCs at values that required significant skill point investment and/or prodigious ability scores to reliably reach (i.e. the most basic of locks or traps being DC 20, so you had to invest as heavily as possible in the related skills to even approach a coin toss), and people thinking that's just how things should be because that's how &quot;the pros&quot; made it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AaronOfBarbaria, post: 6993953, member: 6701872"] I definitely agree that giving characters a chance at failing things that make them look like idiots to fail, such as answering "...is that a bear?" when there is a bear in sight, is a thing that shouldn't be done. That's a large part of why I don't roll dice for anything if failure would not be interesting. Extending how literally everyone (hopefully, at least) doesn't call for dice rolls to avoid tripping every time a character walks somewhere to many other activities. It's also why I think that, assuming insistence upon monster knowledge ever involving dice rolls, there should be a fairly extensive list of monster facts for which their is no check. As for setting DCs, I think there is a trend suggesting that the people that believe a roll should be made are also opposed to those rolls being easy for untrained characters to succeed at, so they set the DC for even the basics high enough that you need a decent modifier to the check in order to get noticeably better odds than a coin toss. I theorize that it is the fault of 3.X - being the first edition to assign specific DCs for important activities, and setting those DCs at values that required significant skill point investment and/or prodigious ability scores to reliably reach (i.e. the most basic of locks or traps being DC 20, so you had to invest as heavily as possible in the related skills to even approach a coin toss), and people thinking that's just how things should be because that's how "the pros" made it. [/QUOTE]

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