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If the result of your skill check is equal to or greater than the difficulty class (or DC) of the task you are attempting to accomplish, you succeed. If it is less than the DC, you fail. Some tasks have varying levels of success and failure depending on how much your check is above or below the required DC. Some skill checks are opposed by the target's skill check. When making an opposed skill check, the attempt is successful if your check result exceeds the result of the target. | If the result of your skill check is equal to or greater than the difficulty class (or DC) of the task you are attempting to accomplish, you succeed. If it is less than the DC, you fail. Some tasks have varying levels of success and failure depending on how much your check is above or below the required DC. Some skill checks are opposed by the target's skill check. When making an opposed skill check, the attempt is successful if your check result exceeds the result of the target. | ||
A result of a natural 1 on the die roll for a skill check always results in a failure. | 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). | |||
===Skill Check DC's=== | ===Skill Check DC's=== | ||