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<blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 7830479" data-attributes="member: 71699">For tasks that take time, when is the skill check made? Is it made over that whole duration? Or at the end? Or...?One reason I ask is that in another thread, a few posters suggested that a spell like guidance should not work on a task that takes longer than one minute. Implying that the check is made over the duration of the task, rather than at the end. (Because, were it at the end, then couldn't the guidance caster wait until just before the end?)I think this interpretation leads to imagining that guidance is in operation over the whole 1 minute; but how about bardic inspiration? With inspiration, one has 10 minutes to use the die. I think this interpretation means something like - the task would need to start and resolve completely inside that 10 minutes. Looking then at Lucky, I think this interpretation means that the feat is used at the last possible moment - the instant of task completion. Because, to be consistent, I think we want all the buffs and re-rolls to be occurring inside the task duration.A residual question is, is it that only one cast of guidance and one inspiration die can be used for a given task? What I mean is, could a magical initiate cast guidance at the start of a 2 minute task, and then recast it 30 seconds in, and then again after another 30 seconds, and then again. Thus with four casts spanning the whole 2 minutes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="clearstream, post: 7830479, member: 71699"] For tasks that take time, when is the skill check made? Is it made over that whole duration? Or at the end? Or...? One reason I ask is that in another thread, a few posters suggested that a spell like [I]guidance[/I] should not work on a task that takes longer than one minute. Implying that the check is made over the duration of the task, rather than at the end. (Because, were it at the end, then couldn't the [I]guidance[/I] caster wait until just before the end?) I think this interpretation leads to imagining that [I]guidance[/I] is in operation over the whole 1 minute; but how about [I]bardic inspiration[/I]? With [I]inspiration[/I], one has 10 minutes to use the die. I think this interpretation means something like - the task would need to start and resolve completely inside that 10 minutes. Looking then at [I]Lucky[/I], I think this interpretation means that the feat is used at the last possible moment - the instant of task completion. Because, to be consistent, I think we want all the buffs and re-rolls to be occurring inside the task duration. A residual question is, is it that only one cast of [I]guidance[/I] and one [I]inspiration[/I] die can be used for a given task? What I mean is, could a magical initiate cast [I]guidance[/I] at the start of a 2 minute task, and then recast it 30 seconds in, and then again after another 30 seconds, and then again. Thus with four casts spanning the whole 2 minutes. [/QUOTE]

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