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<blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 5212609" data-attributes="member: 18280">It is fine to choose not to engage, but Imaro's statement is neither a leap in logic, nor is it fallacious.To put it in RPG terms, imagine a chasm with a DC 40 to leap across.&nbsp; An untrained human has exactly a 0% chance of leaping across the chasm.&nbsp; A human with a +21 bonus to the appropriate skill has a slim chance of leaping across the chasm.&nbsp; A human with a +39 bonus will succeed every time.While it is obvious that skill is operative in allowing a task to be accomplished, and while it is obvious that increasing one's skill makes a task easier whether the DC is 15 or 40 (again, in RPG terms), it is nonetheless true that less skill is needed to accomplish the DC 15 task than the DC 40.&nbsp; One is easier than the other; the other is harder than the first.So, the character with a +39 bonus will view both as being trivially easy, but that individual should not confuse this with the relative difficulty, in general or in fact, of each task.&nbsp; After all, not everyone has a +39 bonus!&nbsp; <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing&nbsp; &nbsp; :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" />RC</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Raven Crowking, post: 5212609, member: 18280"] It is fine to choose not to engage, but Imaro's statement is neither a leap in logic, nor is it fallacious. To put it in RPG terms, imagine a chasm with a DC 40 to leap across. An untrained human has exactly a 0% chance of leaping across the chasm. A human with a +21 bonus to the appropriate skill has a slim chance of leaping across the chasm. A human with a +39 bonus will succeed every time. While it is obvious that skill is operative in allowing a task to be accomplished, and while it is obvious that increasing one's skill makes a task easier whether the DC is 15 or 40 (again, in RPG terms), it is nonetheless true that less skill is needed to accomplish the DC 15 task than the DC 40. One is easier than the other; the other is harder than the first. So, the character with a +39 bonus will view both as being trivially easy, but that individual should not confuse this with the relative difficulty, in general or in fact, of each task. After all, not everyone has a +39 bonus! :lol: RC [/QUOTE]

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