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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AlViking" data-source="post: 9676426" data-attributes="member: 6906980">For picking locks, if they fail by 10 or more the lock can't be picked.  Fail by less than 10 and it's just going to take a while.  As far as persuasion it just depends on what the check is for, I sure hope you don't start combat just because you can't get a discount on that smoothie!  But most of the time I just judge it based on the current scenario, maybe it makes negotiations more intense but you continue on or if the roll is really below the target a fight starts.  But the point is that I'm judging results of failure based on the scenario.  I'm not looking for a way to punish or make failure "interesting" by inventing some negative because that's just not how my game works.  Failure can just be a lack of forward progress.</blockquote>