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<blockquote data-quote="N'raac" data-source="post: 6250715" data-attributes="member: 6681948">I generally interpret &quot;Take 20&quot; as &quot;I will try over and over until it works or until I have tried everything I can think of&quot;.&nbsp; As Greenfield notes, that means you'll get a 20 sooner or later, and a 1 sooner or later, but if there's no impact on a fail, we'll abstract that to 20 tries, 1 with each roll, over 20x the usual time for a&nbsp; check.So if the player tells me &quot;I'll Take 20 on this Open Locks roll&quot;, I'll simply say &quot;eventually it opens&quot; (or &quot;You can't seem to do it&quot;) and mark off the time for 20 attempts.&nbsp; But maybe there's a trap here that goes off after 5 rounds.&nbsp; In that case, I'll roll - after five tries, the trap goes off.&nbsp; If the second succeed, the trap will still go off in another three rounds.&nbsp; If he wants to Take 20 to disable a trap, again I start rolling, and keep rolling until either he succeeds, or he sets off the trap.&nbsp; Of course, if his roll is good enough that he can't set off the trap, or poor enough that he can't disarm it, then the result is a foregone conclusion and we can abstract it again with 20x the time expended and the only possible result arising.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="N'raac, post: 6250715, member: 6681948"] I generally interpret "Take 20" as "I will try over and over until it works or until I have tried everything I can think of". As Greenfield notes, that means you'll get a 20 sooner or later, and a 1 sooner or later, but if there's no impact on a fail, we'll abstract that to 20 tries, 1 with each roll, over 20x the usual time for a check. So if the player tells me "I'll Take 20 on this Open Locks roll", I'll simply say "eventually it opens" (or "You can't seem to do it") and mark off the time for 20 attempts. But maybe there's a trap here that goes off after 5 rounds. In that case, I'll roll - after five tries, the trap goes off. If the second succeed, the trap will still go off in another three rounds. If he wants to Take 20 to disable a trap, again I start rolling, and keep rolling until either he succeeds, or he sets off the trap. Of course, if his roll is good enough that he can't set off the trap, or poor enough that he can't disarm it, then the result is a foregone conclusion and we can abstract it again with 20x the time expended and the only possible result arising. [/QUOTE]

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