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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7056035" data-attributes="member: 42582">At least as I experience, there are a combination of things going on: there's the ritual aspect, of picking up the dice; which establishes a certain sense of "heft" or "place" of the event in the unfolding fiction. And then there's the odds, as you say, which over time contribut to (say) a gritty vs heroic tone.In my preferred approach, whether or not a roll is required might vary between PCs (or between events involving the same PC), depending on the dramatic/thematic context.But your point still holds good in this way: sometimes those low DCs aren't easy to make (eg if a PC has a low bonus in a certain field, or is under penalties for some reason), and so the practice of requiring rolls even at those low DCs does, over time, create meaningful prospects of failure even at straightforward but pivotal moments.As I posted in reply to  [MENTION=20323]Quickleaf[/MENTION], this opens up a certain sort of gritty feel, as well as the prospect of black comedy.</blockquote>