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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What are the consequences of expanding intelligence uses?
I was listening to the commentary of several folks on YouTube regarding the Scion of the Three Rogue and a consistent concern that they had was the subclass' design of tying the uses of some of its ...
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Review a house rule for starting characters with a few "proficient" skills in Roll For Shoes
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I've been considering an answer I got to a previous question about giving Roll For Shoes structure:
If you're willing to tweak the rules a bit, you could give Denise level 1 (or 2!) ...
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Echo jump: interaction with ranged spellstrike
How does echo jump interact with spellstrike?
Could you theoretically jump 80 feet away with a starlit span spellstrike, leaving echo as usual?
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What attributes and skills are most common in RPG systems?
In designing my own tabletop RPG system, I've been finding it's hard to figure out what fundamental stats ought to be tracked for a character. I often find myself looking at years-old drafts and ...
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What's the action cost of Recall Knowledge and Identify Creature?
Q: What is the action economy cost of making a Recall Knowledge or Identify Creature check in Starfinder 1e?
Boy, did this simple question sent me down a rabbit hole. My research attempts follow.
I'm ...
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Can Skills Replace Spells as a Source of Supernatural Abilities?
I'm working on a TTRPG design and one of the things I'm trying to avoid is recreating the "Martial / Caster" divide found in D&D and many other games in that family tree. One idea I'm ...
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Benefits/Point of Stand-Alone Abilities?
In QuestWorlds, a character's Abilities can be Keywords, Breakouts, and Stand-Alone Abilities. I don't think I understand the point of Stand-Alone Abilities. They seem to be priced like Keywords, but ...
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Intelligent Items with limbs and flight and Change Shape
Intelligent Items have no strength, dexterity and constitution score since they are items.
This makes sense until you realize that they have plenty of abilities that grant them movement but without ...
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How to get a character that is not proficient in Persuasion to reliably pass a DC 25 Persuasion check?
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We are facing a high level court case for all our lives, and for story reasons, our main speaker for defense is our Paladin, who is not proficient in Persuasion.1 All he has is +5 from ...
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How do you climb over an edge?
(This question asks a series of related questions, which should be fine for the site's format.)
A Medium sized character is in a pit and wants to climb out of it, reaching ground level.
Let's assume ...
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How do I run charisma based skill checks alongside role playing in D&D 5th edition?
I will provide some context to my question here. I have a current issue with a game I have been running (I am the DM) when it comes to asking players to make charisma based skill checks during ...
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How should I handle skill contests between two equally active participants?
I'm a GM who's considering transferring from D&D 5e to Pathfinder 2e. I understand that PF2e doesn't have contested rolls; instead, one character makes a check against the other character's DC. I'...
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Can you still do grapple checks with athletics in 5e 2024?
I'm playing a game that started with 2014 but moving into the 2024 system. One thing that had come up is grappling. I had a barbarian with expertise in athletics who uses grapple checks to hold his ...
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Does having proficiency in Sleight of Hand give advantage to Thieves' Tool check to pick a lock?
Thieves' Tools are the only place that picking a lock is mentioned in the PHB with a Utilize action to pick a lock. Which makes sense you'd make a Dexterity (Thieves's Tool) check.
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Why do you need to beat a DC of 15 to hide?
What is the purpose of the DC 15 Stealth requirement for hiding?
2024 PHB pg 368 states the following for Hide [Action]
With the Hide action, you try to conceal yourself. To do so, you must succeed ...
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