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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Avalin" data-source="post: 1270615" data-attributes="member: 10760">All essentially is doing is modifying the section which follows.  You can strike the word from the sentence and still get the full intended meaning, just not its emphasis (which as has already been well defined means that the next section is very important).Removing the word makes it clear that the check replaces AC.  I do think that the first part of the description makes it look like the 'To Hit' roll merely sets the DC of a skill check, and in fact either interpretation yields the same results in every case but a natural 20.  A natural 20 being an automatic hit is so fully ingrained into the game throughout its versions that I can not immagine that they intended to change that, and that is why I think that the next sentence was added.  It would have been better to just have written it more clearly in the first place.I am a little confused by the opinion that the 'Essentially' sentence adds nothing, as it rather obviously does.  So maby I am missing something about that veiw.</blockquote>