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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8477054" data-attributes="member: 6779196">You’ve lost me. I don’t understand how what I said denies skills status as game elements that can form specifics that beat generals. They simply do not conflict with the general case here. Their function is to allow a creature to add its proficiency bonus to a subset of ability checks. That is a game mechanical function, and it does not contradict the general case of the DM determining based on fictional positioning and guidance in the rules whether an action can succeed or fail and has stakes, and calling for an ability check (which may or may not have proficiency bonus added to it, if the use case coincides with that of one of the skills the creature taking the action is proficient in) if all three are true.I also can’t parse your hypothetical at all.  You’re framing it in terms so abstract and generalized as to be meaningless to me.</blockquote>