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<blockquote data-quote="Xamnam" data-source="post: 9099511" data-attributes="member: 7037765">My personal experience hasn't quite borne this out. Now, granted, I specifically call out in my description spoken to the whole party that the high Perception player specifically notices something, but as a result, that character constantly gets credit from the other members, and he personally crows about his skill in the matter with some frequency. He's constantly getting validation that his character is excellent at that skill, and how it has borne fruit for the party as a whole. I try and handle things in this way for any character who has a singularly higher skill than everyone else. I think I likewise would be happy with the fiction matching the fantasy of building a character who is excellent at something in that way. Part of the joy of being so particularly skilled is that normal problems simply aren't quite that for you. That's not to say every time, or that there shouldn't be tasks that they can't still fail at. I certainly am not looking for a 100% success rate. Part of having that high skill level is just having opportunities that other people are very unlikely to even sniff, even if you yourself don't pass the test in the moment. But, it feels great to casually step over the things that other folks have an average chance at, and hand in hand, really bad if you end up repeatedly whiffing on things that your character by all means should be rock solid at.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Xamnam, post: 9099511, member: 7037765"] My personal experience hasn't quite borne this out. Now, granted, I specifically call out in my description spoken to the whole party that the high Perception player specifically notices something, but as a result, that character constantly gets credit from the other members, and he personally crows about his skill in the matter with some frequency. He's constantly getting validation that his character is excellent at that skill, and how it has borne fruit for the party as a whole. I try and handle things in this way for any character who has a singularly higher skill than everyone else. I think I likewise would be happy with the fiction matching the fantasy of building a character who is excellent at something in that way. Part of the joy of being so particularly skilled is that normal problems simply aren't quite that for you. That's not to say every time, or that there shouldn't be tasks that they can't still fail at. I certainly am not looking for a 100% success rate. Part of having that high skill level is just having opportunities that other people are very unlikely to even sniff, even if you yourself don't pass the test in the moment. But, it feels great to casually step over the things that other folks have an average chance at, and hand in hand, really bad if you end up repeatedly whiffing on things that your character by all means should be rock solid at. [/QUOTE]

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