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<blockquote data-quote="Don Durito" data-source="post: 8318841" data-attributes="member: 6687260">One of the things with being a skill specialist in games usually is being able to say &quot;It's ok, I've got this&quot;.&nbsp; This doesn't mean that you don't ever fail, but failure should be generally unusual.Now there are always issues with this when rolling a D20, but 5e compounds this by having bonuses overwhelmed by the range of the die.&nbsp; If you want to be able to say &quot;It's ok I've got this&quot; you really do need expertise.I think this gets overlooked a lot.&nbsp; If you have a concept of a Fighter (or most classes) who for some reason is really good at History (you imagine they were brought up as a scholar and left to see the world) than mere proficiency is not really enough to establish that concept as something realised through play.&nbsp; If you have a 16 Int and Proficiency you have a 50% chance of passing a Moderate DC. So it's important to realise what proficiency means.&nbsp; It doesn't mean &quot;I've got this&quot;, it means &quot;Maybe I can do this&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Don Durito, post: 8318841, member: 6687260"] One of the things with being a skill specialist in games usually is being able to say "It's ok, I've got this". This doesn't mean that you don't ever fail, but failure should be generally unusual. Now there are always issues with this when rolling a D20, but 5e compounds this by having bonuses overwhelmed by the range of the die. If you want to be able to say "It's ok I've got this" you really do need expertise. I think this gets overlooked a lot. If you have a concept of a Fighter (or most classes) who for some reason is really good at History (you imagine they were brought up as a scholar and left to see the world) than mere proficiency is not really enough to establish that concept as something realised through play. If you have a 16 Int and Proficiency you have a 50% chance of passing a Moderate DC. So it's important to realise what proficiency means. It doesn't mean "I've got this", it means "Maybe I can do this". [/QUOTE]

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