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A result of a natural 1 on the die roll for a skill check always results in a failure, even in a case where your skill bonus is higher than the DC you are attempting before adding the die roll. This means there is always a 5% chance of failing any skill roll. You can never be so good at a skill that you can't make a mistake sometimes. | A result of a natural 1 on the die roll for a skill check always results in a failure, even in a case where your skill bonus is higher than the DC you are attempting before adding the die roll. This means there is always a 5% chance of failing any skill roll. You can never be so good at a skill that you can't make a mistake sometimes. | ||
A result in a natural 20 on die roll of a skill check is not necessarily a success. In some cases, you are simply not skilled enough to achieve your goal, no matter how hard you try. That said, if you roll a natural 20 on a skill check, you can gain a circumstance bonus to the roll equal to the ability score modifier used for that skill (that is, it is added to the result a total of two times -- once because it's the stat mod you use for the skill, and the second time because you rolled a natural 20). Note that this circumstance bonus is not applied to any skill check in which you "take 20" (see below). | A result in a natural 20 on die roll of a skill check is not necessarily a success. In some cases, you are simply not skilled enough to achieve your goal, no matter how hard you try. That said, if you roll a natural 20 on a skill check, you can gain a circumstance bonus to the roll equal to the ability score modifier used for that skill (that is, it is added to the result a total of two times -- once because it's the stat mod you use for the skill, and the second time because you rolled a natural 20). Note that this circumstance bonus is not applied to any skill check in which you "take 20" (see below), since "taking 20" does not yield a natural 20 result. | ||
===Skill Check DC's=== | ===Skill Check DC's=== | ||
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Taking 20 is not considered a 'natural 20' result, and does not gain the circumstance bonus for rolling a natural 20 on a skill check. | |||
===Ability Checks and Caster Level Checks=== | ===Ability Checks and Caster Level Checks=== | ||