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Message: <blockquote data-quote="howandwhy99" data-source="post: 6437966" data-attributes="member: 3192">How to open a lock:1. Find some way to pick it. Maybe a bent fishhook will serve? Who knows? Try something and tell the DM. Then learn what happens. Maybe you have pins you need to press back? Maybe you need multiple items to do that? The game is making makeshift tools until you succeed automatically or succeed enough to qualify for a roll. 2. You use your lockpicks which give you a chance and perhaps even a bonus to unlock the lock with a roll.3. You try your keys. Maybe one works? No roll needed. FYI: Keys were not created to gimp the Thief (rogue) class. They just work. 4. You break it down with your weapon like any sane barbarian would do. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />...Or anything else you care to try. Only trained people really could Open Locks with any kind of quick reliability and Tool Proficiency sort of brings that back. Except it separates it from the class/role played. Which has become de rigeur</blockquote>