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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7795428" data-attributes="member: 6779196">Well, see, that’s a different action. Instead of “do 10 flips” being the goal, it’s the approach he is taking to the goal of “impress the gymnastics panel.” He either rolls equal to or above the DC and impresses them with his flips, or he rolls below the DC and fails to.This is actually a great illustration of why goal and approach is meaningfully different than simply saying “I make an Athletics check.”Is this a one-off rolling boulder trap, or more of an Indiana Jones style situation where escaping from the boulder is the dramatic question of a whole encounter? In the former case, I think a single roll is sufficient. In the latter case, I think there are far better ways to handle the encounter than a series of contingent Ability checks. In either case I’m not sure how doing 10 flips would help  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />There are very few cases where I intend to resolve an action over more than a single roll. They do exist, but they are rare. Encounters are a different ball of wax.In this case, the crowd’s reaction is inconsequential. What we are checking for is whether or not the performance pleases the patrons enough to earn her meal. Exactly how impressed or unimpressed the patrons are beyond that is pure narrative, and doesn’t really need to be resolved by an ability check.</blockquote>

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