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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest 6801328" data-source="post: 6858320">Sorry, Max, but no. The "degree of success" in D&D is irrelevant. The only thing that matters is whether you reach the DC or not. Therefore that's the only information you would get to determine intelligence. Anything else is metagaming.  Now, if this were a game were the amount you passed the DC by actually mattered, if each point above the DC gave a mechanical benefit, then yeah each point of Int (well, every two points) would be much more apparent. But that ain't how this game works. The irony in your answer is that after dozens of pages of basically accusing the 5 Int player of metagaming if he does anything other than play dumb, you now admit you have to metagame (know the dice rolls) to figure out which character is smarter.</blockquote>