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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ariosto" data-source="post: 4869600" data-attributes="member: 80487">Cadfan, I think that was making things needlessly either/or. (Also, traps in OD&D were far from perfectly oiled machines, by default activating but 1/3 of the time!)I try to accomplish something, and fail; another would be sunk there and then. Being a specialist in this sort of thing, however, I have a Plan B!Suppose my special skill saves my bacon half the time. That's not such a big deal when it means the difference between 98% and 99% chance of not blowing it (unless the consequences are commensurately dire). When it moves me up from 20% to 60%, though, my chance of success has tripled!What can be confusing is that Plan A itself is not necessarily formally quantified into a dice-roll. It may be a matter of player skill, which could yield statistical data after the fact just as might a season of ballgames.</blockquote>