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Who Is Ellen - 71 - HD

🕑 Added 2022-12-13 04:00:02 +0000 UTC

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Crissa Kentavr

I think that's fine. How confident your character is, is sorta unrelated to the outcome of the test. You roll a 15, you're confident. If it misses... See?

Otter Annason

unf the character does not know what the player rolls, so not really

Diego Rossi

I have always played with the assumption that if you have tried to disarm a trap and failed you know it. The problem Rick has is about rolling a value that "maybe will detected the trap, if there is one", and getting "Nope, no trap, all is OK." It doesn't meant that there is no trap, only that he hasn't noticed any trap. Rick paladin probably has the healing skill as the minimum value for someone trained in it. Betting your party members health on that is questionable. If we are speaking of his spellcraft skill, probably it is 0.

Some Ed

Yes. But this isn't a trap that Rich the Paladin has possibly disarmed. It's merely been detected.

Some Ed

I'm reminded of a game in which my WIS 3 magic user was the party leader because all of the other players were too timid to take the role. Meanwhile, I played with the kind of bravery that "this is the most pathetic character I've ever played, let's do this." can provide and little else can. The character was fine being the party leader, as he was delusional enough to think strength being his second highest stat meant he was a fighter, despite it still being quite low.

Copper Hamster

I decided in most cases that a thief is enough of a professional that if they know the trap is there they know if they've disarmed it. Or not. Unless they are in a funhouse dungeon. (Funhouse dungeons are the old school mostly plotless crawls with layered traps and weird creatures galore. Fun, memorable, but not a campaign. One of my personal favorites is the Ghost Tower of Inverness.)

Narzain

The very existence of Grimtooth's Traps terrified whole generations of players into abject paranoia.

KC

Oddly enough, for once I see where Rich is coming from

John M. Gamble

That's why I roll rhombic triacontahedrons.

David Fenger

My favourite way to play it is to start fresh each campaign - 1st level noobies don't know better (and our GM mostly isn't trying to kill us), so they stumble into traps, learn lessons, and do better next time. (Then again, I was also the one that dared the party to open all 6 doors in that corridor at the same time... and they did it, too. Was a heck of a fun fight.)