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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 6850685" data-attributes="member: 16814">I'm uncertain how you came to the conclusion that Sherlock never did anything Nearly Impossible with his intelligence, given that many of the things he's accredited for were viewed as impossible to actually do, but, nevertheless, I concede that you since you're the author of this example you have the authority to set DCs however you want.  That subjective setting, though, weakens your argument as you're now relying on your subjective appraisal of the difficulties presented Sherlock Holmes.  However, that's not the bane of your argument.The bane is that a single Investigation check does not cover the scope of the mental feats performed by Sherlock Holmes.  You must also have expertise in every knowledge skill and be successful at straight intelligence ability checks for those situations that aren't covered by the skills.  You postulate that single check as covering the scope of the abilities displayed by Sherlock Holmes, but that's clearly false.  If you chose to run your adventures as a single skill check for success and then narrate out a complex story based on that single check, then I suppose that you can do that, but that strikes me as a singularly boring experience.  Given that you can run such a game, I suppose that I must concede that, in the face of your custom class and desire to narrate an entire adventure based on a single roll that you've chosen the DC for arbitrarily, I suppose you can do that.  I'm curious, though, what might constitution a nearly impossible mental feat of investigation is nothing Sherlock Holmes ever did was that difficult.  Which genius of the class of Detective and possessing a 20 Intelligence solves that case for Sherlock?  Given Sherlock only ever met one other person in his intellectual weight class, I'd like to know where all of the 11th level 20 Intelligence Detectives are that can easily match Sherlock's ability.</blockquote>

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