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<blockquote data-quote="Ambrus" data-source="post: 2569471" data-attributes="member: 17691">Once the PCs were neering a forest that an NPC had told them the BBEG was hiding. One player wanted to check the path into the forest for tracks and then rolled a Search check of 5 so I tell him: &quot;There is in fact a forest where the old woman told you it'd be.&quot; Eh. You'd probably have had to be there... We all had a good laugh about it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Once I was playing a druid/shifter in a game in which the DM hardly ever used skill checks for anything except Spot, which he called for every few minutes. Unlike most people at the table, I'd clued into this fact and had subsequently maxed out my Spot skill and acquired a set of Eyes of the eagle. Combined with my high Wisdom and the right animal form it made for a high Spot check even at 8th level. The DM and the other players though were new to D20 and didn't really grasp it's possibilities. So at one point in a game I ask the DM if I could make a spot check to find some sneaky NPCs who were trying to sneak away into the forest. The DM says: &quot;Sure but it'll have to be really good.&quot; I roll a natural 3 and everyone around the table starts chuckling until I total up my modifiers and say: &quot;32&quot;. It was more fun seeing their surprised faces than actually finding the NPCs. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool&nbsp; &nbsp; :cool:"&nbsp; data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ambrus, post: 2569471, member: 17691"] Once the PCs were neering a forest that an NPC had told them the BBEG was hiding. One player wanted to check the path into the forest for tracks and then rolled a Search check of 5 so I tell him: "There is in fact a forest where the old woman told you it'd be." Eh. You'd probably have had to be there... We all had a good laugh about it. :) Once I was playing a druid/shifter in a game in which the DM hardly ever used skill checks for anything except Spot, which he called for every few minutes. Unlike most people at the table, I'd clued into this fact and had subsequently maxed out my Spot skill and acquired a set of Eyes of the eagle. Combined with my high Wisdom and the right animal form it made for a high Spot check even at 8th level. The DM and the other players though were new to D20 and didn't really grasp it's possibilities. So at one point in a game I ask the DM if I could make a spot check to find some sneaky NPCs who were trying to sneak away into the forest. The DM says: "Sure but it'll have to be really good." I roll a natural 3 and everyone around the table starts chuckling until I total up my modifiers and say: "32". It was more fun seeing their surprised faces than actually finding the NPCs. :D :cool: [/QUOTE]

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