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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9689411" data-attributes="member: 42582">Whether or not a burglar opens the door while someone is there to see them has a lot to do with their competence as a burglar. At least it seems like that to me.Yes, as I have said, competent people make their own luck.Now if you are telling me that your skill system can't differentiate between a burglar and a locksmith; or must resolve every twist of the lockpicks as a separate roll, rather than factoring in the need to stop and play it cool as part of the check, OK. But that's probably not a skill system that is very well suited for "fail forward" resolution.And for clarity: it is not inherent to D&D that its skill system, or resolution system more generally, be like the one described in the previous paragraph. For instance, it's pretty clear in classic D&D that a roll to find a secret door encompasses a whole lot of discrete actions. And a class D&D thief's roll to pick a pocket seems to me to factor in all their stops and starts and making sure they don't get caught doing it.</blockquote>