Questions tagged [skills]
For questions about skills: abilities of characters that describe their capabilities in a range of areas, that typically progress with level.
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Can a Druid understand language while Wild Shaped?
Many of the threads on this focus on speaking. Other threads focus on understanding/speaking new languages that the Beast knows but the character does not know. I'm not interested in these questions.
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What are the conditions for a Bon Mot retort?
The Bon Mot skill feat imposes a minute long status penalty on a foe with a successful Diplomacy check. This penalty can be ended in the following circumstance:
The target can end the effect early ...
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Medicine and Stabilizing
While I won't question my DM because it is his game and he is running it his own way, I was curious on one of the rulings that was made and wanted to see what the official rules on it were.
We are ...
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Herbalism Kit Activity: Identify Poison - Applicability
In Xanathar's Guide to Everything near the bottom of the first column on page 82 is a table for Herbalism Kit Activities. One of the Activities is named "Identify poison" and requires a DC ...
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What percentage of Call of Cthulhu characters start drowning on average?
In Call of Cthulhu 7e, it is possible to call for a swimming check that can result in drowning. Assume that 80% of characters have a 20 in swim, and 20% of characters have a 60 in swim. Assume that ...
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Can Assured Identification be used to identify items with traits you are trained in (not expert) once you have the feat?
This skill feat states:
Prerequisites: expert in Arcana, Nature, Occultism, or expert in Religion.
You rarely misidentify an item. When using Arcana, Nature, Occultism, or Religion checks to Identify ...
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A mechanic to resolve multi-stage, multi-participant tasks
Sometimes the party wants to complete a multi-part task where the performance of one of them on one part can help or hinder the performance of another one on a different part. They have a common goal,...
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Was this the right call? Player rolled a great Intimidation check on an enemy that wouldn't normally be intimidated
In one of my last sessions, my players were about to begin their battle with the big bad of the story arc: a Hag who had taken over the body of the village herbalist and was quietly poisoning the ...
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What does it mean in-game to be better at Deception than Persuasion?
Recently in-game I found myself moderating an 'off-screen' encounter between two NPCs; one an intelligent animal companion (winter wolf) of one of the PCs, and the other a Rakshasa who had no ...
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Can you stack passive wisdom boosts?
I am currently putting together a dhampir blood hunter character and I noticed something interesting, which I would like to verify the RAW about:
The Order of the Lycan, Heightened Senses is described ...
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Training in the Dojo
I have scanned the 4th edition rules for the fifth time by now, and I still can't seem to find what I am seeking.
I know, that it takes a measure of weeks (typically two to four) to train an animal to ...
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Can you use the Sleight of Hand skill to stack the Deck of Many Things?
As I understand the Deck of Many Things, you must intentionally draw a card while stating how many cards you wish to draw.
Does this preclude merely looking at the cards?
And if you can look at the ...
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How can I improve my chances at probing minds?
Sooner or later my warlock will need to probe minds again with Detect Thoughts and will end up matching wits with a Sicilian the target in a contested intelligence check.
Either way, the target knows ...
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Balancing a conflict resolution system favouring players picking a spread of skills and attributes in a challenge, while rewarding some over others?
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I'm hoping I can draw on the Game Designer experience of this stack to help be make a decision on a dice-based conflict resolution system I'm designing for an RPG that I've been ...
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How can I prevent the rogue from placing items in my character's backpack?
We've a rogue in the party with proficiency and magic items assisting their Sleight of Hand.
With a +12 and always having advantage, they roll, on average, a 25. They have gotten to enjoy stealing ...
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