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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 6283943" data-attributes="member: 29398">Except you don't roll 20 times!&nbsp; You roll once, representing the best you're gonna do no matter how many times you attempt whatever it is you're attempting under those conditions (whatever they may be).&nbsp; Change the conditions somehow, and you get another roll.&nbsp; Assuming a DC 15 or system equivalent for the thing being attempted, the discussion at the table should go something like:Player: &quot;I try to &lt;choose one: pick the lock, climb the wall, decipher the code, etc.&gt;.&quot;DM: &quot;OK, you take a while and give it your best shot - roll your skill check.&quot;Player: (rolls die) &quot;7, plus 4, that's 11.&quot;DM: &quot;Sorry, no go.&nbsp; What do you do next?&quot;Player: &quot;I try again.&quot;DM: &quot;What are you doing differently this time?&quot;Player: &quot;Nothing, I'm just trying again.&quot;DM: &quot;Then you're failing again as you're still bound by the 11 you rolled earlier.&nbsp; That's the best you're going to do unless you do something differently.&quot;See?&nbsp; One roll.&nbsp; Not twenty.Lan-&quot;my skills go to 11&quot;-efan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 6283943, member: 29398"] Except you don't roll 20 times! You roll [B]once[/B], representing the best you're gonna do no matter how many times you attempt whatever it is you're attempting under those conditions (whatever they may be). Change the conditions somehow, and you get another roll. Assuming a DC 15 or system equivalent for the thing being attempted, the discussion at the table should go something like: Player: "I try to <choose one: pick the lock, climb the wall, decipher the code, etc.>." DM: "OK, you take a while and give it your best shot - roll your skill check." Player: (rolls die) "7, plus 4, that's 11." DM: "Sorry, no go. What do you do next?" Player: "I try again." DM: "What are you doing differently this time?" Player: "Nothing, I'm just trying again." DM: "Then you're failing again as you're still bound by the 11 you rolled earlier. That's the best you're going to do unless you do something differently." See? One roll. Not twenty. Lan-"my skills go to 11"-efan [/QUOTE]

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