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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 7504613" data-attributes="member: 58197">Both of those scenarios - a diverse array of skill checks, or a single skill check - are very, very different from making the same check over and over. When you're making the same check repeatedly (an attack roll), even a small increase in that check makes a big difference.In a combat, making 2 attacks per round for five rounds, you might have to hit (let's say) 7 times to win before you are yourself defeated. If you normally hit on a roll of 8 or better, a +2 bonus to your attack roll (e.g., from Archery) increases your chances of victory by 26%! It's like a skill challenge where the DM always calls for the same skill. Any bonus to that skill, however small, is worth gold.To get the same benefit in a one-and-done skill check, you need a +5 bonus... like high-level Expertise. And in a skill challenge where many different skills are called for, it might not even be possible to get +26% out of a bonus to one single skill.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 7504613, member: 58197"] Both of those scenarios - a diverse array of skill checks, or a single skill check - are very, very different from making [I]the same check[/I] over and over. When you're making the same check repeatedly (an attack roll), even a small increase in that check makes a big difference. In a combat, making 2 attacks per round for five rounds, you might have to hit (let's say) 7 times to win before you are yourself defeated. If you normally hit on a roll of 8 or better, a +2 bonus to your attack roll (e.g., from Archery) increases your chances of victory by 26%! It's like a skill challenge where the DM always calls for the same skill. Any bonus to that skill, however small, is worth gold. To get the same benefit in a one-and-done skill check, you need a +5 bonus... like high-level Expertise. And in a skill challenge where [I]many different[/I] skills are called for, it might not even be possible to get +26% out of a bonus to one single skill. [/QUOTE]

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