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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Runestar" data-source="post: 5027919" data-attributes="member: 72317">This is quite a common phenomenon, where people tend to confuse taking 10 with taking 20. I have no idea how it got propagated either.Taking 10 essentially means you forgo any potential upsides from rolling well (ie: 11 or more), but this means you also will not suffer the drawbacks of rolling poorly (ie: 9 or lower). You are taking chance out of the equation, because you are likely satisfied with the results of rolling a 10. Typically, if you are assured a good chance of success, but don't want to get screwed over by exceedingly bad rolls, then you will take 10. For instance, if you will fail an open lock attempt only on a roll of 4 or less, then it makes sense to take 10. Plus, you save everyone's time by not having to roll unnecessarily. But this also means you will likely be running into DCs 11+ higher than the rogue's open lock modifier. <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=";)" />As such, common sense suggests that taking 10 is really only useful if there is a penalty for failure. Else, people would just take 20.</blockquote>