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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9239543" data-attributes="member: 93670">Depends on how you are trying to pick the lock.Snap a tool inside in a way that you can't extract under current circumstances?  Oops....  there's no good nondestructive way of correcting it short of obtaining the tools to remove the broken bit (personally or someone else doing it for you/the lock owner)Discover after the fact that you triggered a trap pin or similar? oops.. kinda hard to try again if you need to unlock & disassemble/reassemble the lockTrigger some other failsafe like the arcane equivalent of a maglock?... oops....  the magnet in a maglock engages a physical lock so it's probably still locked if you can dispel magic on it.  Those are usually  required by firecode to failsafe in the event of an alarm but d&d worlds don't exactly have firecodes likely to apply to the average dungeon or trapped doorYou could also include the lock being rusty corroded or otherwise clogged in a way that now makes it unworkable because of your failure.More importantly the GM should not be expected to personally know how to pick a lock & know enough about doing so in order to answer that question because the GM gets to decide if you can make a check & simply saying no you tried but failed in some form is all that is needed</blockquote>