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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 7831513" data-attributes="member: 1465">I tend to think of it in natural terms, so for me yes the &quot;check&quot; represents a continued effort which spans the whole duration. It doesn't matter if the player rolls the dice at the start or at the end. For example, when players decide to be sneaky I typically tell them to roll Stealth checks as they start moving silently, and then use the result later when it matters i.e. when there are foes that may hear them; on the contrary I usually ask for social interaction checks after they roleplayed a conversation, so that I also take into account what they said.That's how I rule them. Guidance won't help with a task longer than 1 minute, and Bardic Inspiration won't help with a task longer than 10 minutes.Lucky has some narrative text about working at the &quot;right moment&quot;, but I don't know from where you are getting that this means the &quot;instant of task completion&quot;. I think you are making this up, it's not in the feat description. I am fine with this feat being usable in prolonged tasks and saving throws such as recovering from an illness.Guidance requires concentration so in my games I would not allow to cast it multiple times to cover longer tasks, as I would rule that the second casting interrupts concentration on the first.Bardic Inspiration doesn't require concentration so I would allow a Bard to keep inspiring over multiples of 10 minutes, after all the Bard is going to have to expend multiple uses of this ability so the price is fair.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 7831513, member: 1465"] I tend to think of it in natural terms, so for me [I]yes[/I] the "check" represents a continued effort which spans the whole duration. It doesn't matter if the [I]player [/I]rolls the dice at the start or at the end. For example, when players decide to be sneaky I typically tell them to roll Stealth checks as they start moving silently, and then use the result later when it matters i.e. when there are foes that may hear them; on the contrary I usually ask for social interaction checks after they roleplayed a conversation, so that I also take into account what they said. That's how I rule them. [I]Guidance[/I] won't help with a task longer than 1 minute, and [I]Bardic Inspiration[/I] won't help with a task longer than 10 minutes. [I]Lucky[/I] has some narrative text about working at the "right moment", but I don't know from where you are getting that this means the "instant of task completion". I think you are making this up, it's not in the feat description. I am fine with this feat being usable in prolonged tasks and saving throws such as recovering from an illness. [I]Guidance[/I] requires concentration so in my games I would not allow to cast it multiple times to cover longer tasks, as I would rule that the second casting interrupts concentration on the first. [I]Bardic Inspiration[/I] doesn't require concentration so I would allow a Bard to keep inspiring over multiples of 10 minutes, after all the Bard is going to have to expend multiple uses of this ability so the price is fair. [/QUOTE]

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