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<blockquote data-quote="Sekhmet" data-source="post: 5877713" data-attributes="member: 97602">You could also place DCs just barely out of reach of a &quot;take 20&quot; (two or three points), so the PC's must have a circumstantial or temporary modifier in place. I give PC's circumstantial modifiers (+2) when they take interest in a specific item or feature I've placed in the description of the area. This more or less negates the necessity of altering any rules.I feel I should elaborate a small amount, due to the attention the post is getting.Don't do this with every check, otherwise your wizards and bards and whathaveyou will be constantly buffing your heroes, and it will be a pointless waste of resources. Also, make sure your room/hallway/whathaveyou descriptions are good enough to make your heroes WANT to take notice. If I describe a gently swaying chandelier in a deep, dark dungeon, you can bet my PCs are going to want to check it out. Why is it swaying? What is it doing here? If I describe a hallway as six feet wide, narrowing to four feet over the course of the next twenty feet, my heroes probably don't give a damn, except for considering the strategic value of said hallway.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sekhmet, post: 5877713, member: 97602"] You could also place DCs just barely out of reach of a "take 20" (two or three points), so the PC's must have a circumstantial or temporary modifier in place. I give PC's circumstantial modifiers (+2) when they take interest in a specific item or feature I've placed in the description of the area. This more or less negates the necessity of altering any rules. I feel I should elaborate a small amount, due to the attention the post is getting. Don't do this with every check, otherwise your wizards and bards and whathaveyou will be constantly buffing your heroes, and it will be a pointless waste of resources. Also, make sure your room/hallway/whathaveyou descriptions are good enough to make your heroes WANT to take notice. If I describe a gently swaying chandelier in a deep, dark dungeon, you can bet my PCs are going to want to check it out. Why is it swaying? What is it doing here? If I describe a hallway as six feet wide, narrowing to four feet over the course of the next twenty feet, my heroes probably don't give a damn, except for considering the strategic value of said hallway. [/QUOTE]

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