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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GrimCo" data-source="post: 9265784" data-attributes="member: 7044462">Under normal circumstances or in adventuring setting? From personal experience, i worked as maintenance engineer, had very good team of both engineers and technicians, none with less than 5 years of field experience, couple with 10-20.  And i can tell you, there was solid difference between working in Germany and Switzerland or working under armed guards in Afghanistan and Somalia. It's not like we forgot how to do our job, it's just that added stress of working in active war zone or non permissive environment that ticks in your subconscious mind because of real threat of serious danger. People would make mistakes more often, tasks would take longer. And when you add time pressure to it (cause sometimes you have only small window of opportunity to go out and do your job), you are more prone to make mistakes. In contrast, when you work without having to worry about your personal safety, you can focus more, be faster and make less mistakes. That's mostly on DM and how he handles stuff. As i said, most DMs i know don't make you roll to use skill under normal circumstances. You have knowledge and tools, you make it happen. Describe how and what you wanna do and just do it. It's a matter of perspective. They seem incompetent in their skill under adverse conditions. Adventuring is similar to working in non permissive environment. There is element of danger. So you don't focus on work completely, you always have at least bit of attention on your surrounding for signs of trouble.  Or it's just bad DM ( in my opinion) that asks for checks when checks aren't needed so characters appear more incompetent than they really are.</blockquote>

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