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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Friend of the Dork" data-source="post: 5232867" data-attributes="member: 91954">The problem here is that DMs generally loves to call for checks when there is no need. Crossing a river? Swim check! Climbing a tree? Climb check, even if the tree is only 10' tall and practically harmless to a 3rd level fighter. Same thing applies in combat really. Do you really need to roll anything when there is a 10th level fighter killing a level 1 warrior Kobold? Of course not, it's practically impossible for the fighter to lose. Sure he can roll a 1, but the kobold will probably not kill him even with 20 rounds of attacking with his short sword (1d4-x damage). But the rules (not even guidelines here) say you always roll attack rolls, which do you until a DM says "ok you kill the kobold congrats."So even if there is an obsdcure tip about PC generally not needing to roll at a task the DM thinks he will manage easily, the specific rules pretty much dictates rolling unless failure is impossible (say a ride check to guide a mount with knees for a trained PC). Which is coincidentally a check I would think anyone but very good riders would have problems with... so I am going to demand a check unless the PC CAN'T fail even on a 1.</blockquote>