• cerevant@lemm.ee
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    In D&D this would pass a group stealth check because more than half of the group passed.

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      In D&D 5e. In other editions, that would have to be some kind of special ability or simply off the table altogether.

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    I never bother when the dm asks for a stealth check when playing an unstealthy character.

    Just go along with the idea that I’m gonna get hurt to alay the detection of my comrades…

    Dm: roll a stealth check.

    Me: Wtf is a stealth check? I barge into the room like a bull whos balls are bound, sword drawn, heated breath, blood boiling.

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    It’s a group check and unless there are some wildly different modifiers between the PCs then it looks to me like at least half of the party passed, therefore the party passes, no worries.

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      This is true in 5e DnD. Since this is “RPGMemes”, and the meme applies to a lot more RPGs, including editions of DnD other than 5e.

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        True, but OP’s other comments strongly imply that they’re playing 5e!

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            People often post memes to discuss things that happened in their games and I see a lot of rules misunderstanding in the comments, I hope my comment helped some people out. As for the quality of image captioning? Reasonably good meme.

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    I played a shadowdancer in full plate that always used stealth for initiative once. She was practically invisible, but with the implacable CLANK CLANK CLANK precluding a heavy THWACK to start off every combat. it was pretty reliable strat all things considered.

    it was ironically our swashbuckler who was the bane of all stealth attempts, as they were just so unlucky with d20 rolls

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    I hate group checks for this kind of thing. I mainly only use them for perception or knowledge checks (always fun when one person is oblivious). For group tests like stealth or athletics for a chase it’s probably better to either build a challenge out of it so other skills can apply and more checks balance the luck factor, or just let one player be skill leader and make the check with appropriate penalties if part of their challenge is managing the clanky loud orc in plate.

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    I tend to take one or two approaches. First being “Slowest and Loudest” in that the one worst at the test makes the roll, most of the time with help. Possibly also backed by a setup action.

    Second is turning it into an extended test, I’ll put up a tracker and we’ll see what actions the narrative drags up. With this option a failure is only Stealth Over if it has to be, when there is no other reasonable consequence. So clanker can clank.

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    Does anybody play with crit fails/successes for skill checks? I thought RAW was that they’re only for attacks and death saves. Nice meme though

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        Very much depends on the modifier, though. Like in Baldur’s Gate 3 they do crit fails/successes which is what made me think of this. But say my character is a level 20 wizard with an essentially superhuman mastery of Arcana. So a bonus of +12 to arcana and is presented with a rune that needs to be identified:

        Under the crit fail/success system, this genius Archmagus with a knowledge of Arcana in the same ballpark as Mystra herself has a 5% chance of not knowing what the fuck that rune does instead of whatever small percentage rolling a minimum of 13 would get you on that particular skill challenege. If this dude rolled the lowest he can roll, it is and should still be treated as pretty damn good.

        And it’s ultimately up to the DM, of course, but RAW matters too

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        in 2e, its a pretty big difference. A failed stealth check bumps down your stealth status to “Hidden” (What was that noise? Who’s footprints are these? etc.), while a crit fail makes you full on “observed” (Tony Tony Chopper style.)

        The Assurance: Stealth feat is the lynchpin in many a clunky fighter’s exploration kit, since it will pretty much never critically fail, giving them time to hide somewhere or get help from a sneakier friend.

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        Isn’t that usually a Session 0 agreement? If the campaign uses crit fails, then yes.

        Also: best mechanic I’ve heard of for crit fails is the player describing the failure. They’re going to come up with something better 90% of the time.

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        Sort of since what the DM says ultimately goes, but no - a crit fail means your effort just fails no matter what. Now, it may also mean that your acrobatics check ends in you slipping on a banana peel and breaking your back, but it doesn’t have to be dramatic.

        So, crit fail means that no matter how skilled you are, you have a 5% chance of failing anything you attempt (without advantage, lucky, etc. anyway)

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            No not at all - it’s just fun to. A nat one on attacks always misses though. Some DMs say if you nat one your attack you might hit a teammate or do something else disadvantageous, but it’s all contextual.

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      Plenty of people do, it sucks. Nothing like having a bonus large enough to still pass even on a one but because someone likes more critical failures you fuck up at doing something that should be comically mundane to your supposed expert 5% of the time.

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      Crit fails/successes are built into Pathfinder2e, so yeah we use em’

      Some of the best stories in all my RPG experiences have come from a crit fails!

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        Most situations requiring you to stealth aren’t going to have time for you to get out of your armor

        That goes double for heavy armors like plate which takes upwards of twenty minutes to remove depending on the system you’re using.