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If an NPC is telling the truth, what's the Insight DC to know they're telling the truth?
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<blockquote data-quote="robus" data-source="post: 7588749" data-attributes="member: 6801558"><p>A situation where I can see a lot of mundane obstacles to overcome would be playing something like Dragon Heist. There you can imagine a lot of locked doors to get past, or guards (city and private) to evade. Now those could be resolved with dice rolls, but most of the time they should not be. Remember if there’s no penalty for taking time then the PCs will eventually succeed. (a locked door just costs 10 minutes, waiting for a patrol to pass the same.) But if you’re being chased by the city guards, then quickly getting through a locked door suddenly becomes critical. If you fail the check and take too much time the guards will catch you!</p><p></p><p>So the locked doors and guard encounters that are narrated through are foreshadowing the possibility that if you need to move fast through the city things are going to be tricky, you won’t be able to duck into a building because its door is likely to be locked and running down the street is likely to produce an encounter with another patrol.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="robus, post: 7588749, member: 6801558"] A situation where I can see a lot of mundane obstacles to overcome would be playing something like Dragon Heist. There you can imagine a lot of locked doors to get past, or guards (city and private) to evade. Now those could be resolved with dice rolls, but most of the time they should not be. Remember if there’s no penalty for taking time then the PCs will eventually succeed. (a locked door just costs 10 minutes, waiting for a patrol to pass the same.) But if you’re being chased by the city guards, then quickly getting through a locked door suddenly becomes critical. If you fail the check and take too much time the guards will catch you! So the locked doors and guard encounters that are narrated through are foreshadowing the possibility that if you need to move fast through the city things are going to be tricky, you won’t be able to duck into a building because its door is likely to be locked and running down the street is likely to produce an encounter with another patrol. [/QUOTE]
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