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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nefermandias" data-source="post: 8477534" data-attributes="member: 7027074">To add to this: Per RAW, ability checks are only needed when uncertainty is present, that's what the book says and there's no debate here. Now, since the DM is the one that determines wheter any given action's outcome is uncertain or not, we can imagine a campaign played from lvl 1 to lvl 20 in which an ability check is never called for and that would still be RAW. As much as I love the addition of the skill system back in 3e, it did come with the downside of making people believe that skills are like buttoms you have to push. I have seen DMs, especially new ones, asking for rolls for pretty much every action the PCs attempted, no matter how trivial or unconsequential and that bugs me to no end.</blockquote>