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Forums  > General  > General  > HOWTO: Rolling Skill Checks     Display using: Flat View Threaded View   Oldest to newest Newest to oldest Previous Thread :: Next Thread   Author  Thread: HOWTO: Rolling Skill Checks  Landru Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Total Posts: 740 Send PM   HOWTO: Rolling Skill Checks Posted: 13 Oct 2003 09:02 PM With so many new faces here, I thought it might be a good time to talk about some of the things you'll need to do when interacting with DMs during an event. These are mostly mechanical things, that you could be called upon to do either in an organized adventure or in a solo setting. This will be a series of short posts with very quick and concise info. Anybody who wishes to cover a topic is welcome. Rolling Skill Checks Occasionally you may be called upon, either publicly or privately, to roll a skill check. The most common way you'll see this is an unexpected voice nearby saying something like **SPOT CHECK** (the whole party should roll checks when they see this) or you might get a simple private tell to "Roll a wisdom check". The response can be anything from total failure to an important piece of information. Most likely it will come in the form of a "tell", so that you can RP out the results of your check. To do this, you should "use" your PC Dicebag. This item is placed in the inventory of all new characters, and might be a handy thing to put on your quickbar. Once used, the dicebag will pop up a dialog asking you what you want to do. You can roll your check, and the DM will see the result of the roll. You don't need to tell anybody what the result of the roll is. Dice rolls have two settings: Public and Private. Public checks are displayed to everybody nearby, and private checks are only visible to the player. In both cases, the DM sees the result. That's about it... pretty simple. I hope this information is useful to some of you out there. Question Authority!  Sug 80flavours.com Joined: 14 Apr 2003 Total Posts: 448 Send PM   Re: HOWTO: Rolling Skill Checks Posted: 14 Oct 2003 05:15 AM it cetainly is! "ehehehehe,.." Try to look unimportant, they may be low on ammo.  NeoCount Joined: 08 Oct 2003 Total Posts: 5 Send PM   Re: HOWTO: Rolling Skill Checks Posted: 14 Oct 2003 08:16 AM Thanks for that information, things are starting to get clearer.  Aria Joined: 10 Feb 2003 Total Posts: 1035 Send PM   Re: HOWTO: Rolling Skill Checks Posted: 14 Oct 2003 11:21 AM Twice as clear, I see Thanks Merum! Aria So talented, so troubled.  Vandle Savage Joined: 20 Sep 2003 Total Posts: 596 Send PM   Re: HOWTO: Rolling Skill Checks Posted: 14 Oct 2003 12:42 PM I've not needed to know this yet, but thanks for the info all the same! :) I'm The Cult of Personality.  Barnas Joined: 17 Aug 2003 Total Posts: 3322 Send PM   Re: HOWTO: Rolling Skill Checks Posted: 14 Oct 2003 01:09 PM I really like this little feature. It lets me take advantage of Fri'els massive persuade score, much to the annoyance of various people :P I hit a 52 yesterday! -Barnas  slink www.drislink.com Joined: 27 Aug 2003 Total Posts: 726 Send PM   Re: HOWTO: Rolling Skill Checks Posted: 14 Oct 2003 01:14 PM Is this the only time the **SPOT CHECK** message comes up? Or is there also an automated one? Dieties preserve us from the evil chaotics named Lag, Crash, and Server Reset. PCs: Loli Dankirk (Ftr 18/Brd 8.5 @ 1777 hrs) left Vives for Origins; Gnora Gnombody (Sor 5 @ 54 hrs) and Amanda Stark (Wiz 3 @ ~10 hrs) left Vives for Feline Providence.  Aria Joined: 10 Feb 2003 Total Posts: 1035 Send PM   Re: HOWTO: Rolling Skill Checks Posted: 14 Oct 2003 01:17 PM The automated trigger/placeable/convo based ones doesn't tell you when they do the roll. Aria So talented, so troubled.  slink www.drislink.com Joined: 27 Aug 2003 Total Posts: 726 Send PM   Re: HOWTO: Rolling Skill Checks Posted: 14 Oct 2003 01:28 PM OK, well, when I was new here I ignored a DM once then. I had no idea what that message meant at that time. Oops. :) Dieties preserve us from the evil chaotics named Lag, Crash, and Server Reset. PCs: Loli Dankirk (Ftr 18/Brd 8.5 @ 1777 hrs) left Vives for Origins; Gnora Gnombody (Sor 5 @ 54 hrs) and Amanda Stark (Wiz 3 @ ~10 hrs) left Vives for Feline Providence.  Alosynth Joined: 11 Apr 2003 Total Posts: 1324 Send PM   Re: HOWTO: Rolling Skill Checks Posted: 21 Oct 2003 01:21 AM With so many new faces here, I thought it might be a good time to talk about some of the things you'll need to do when interacting with DMs during an event. These are mostly mechanical things, that you could be called upon to do either in an organized adventure or in a solo setting. This will be a series of short posts with very quick and concise info. Anybody who wishes to cover a topic is welcome. Rolling Skill Checks Occasionally you may be called upon, either publicly or privately, to roll a skill check. The most common way you'll see this is an unexpected voice nearby saying something like **SPOT CHECK** (the whole party should roll checks when they see this) or you might get a simple private tell to "Roll a wisdom check". The response can be anything from total failure to an important piece of information. Most likely it will come in the form of a "tell", so that you can RP out the results of your check. To do this, you should "use" your PC Dicebag. This item is placed in the inventory of all new characters, and might be a handy thing to put on your quickbar. Once used, the dicebag will pop up a dialog asking you what you want to do. You can roll your check, and the DM will see the result of the roll. You don't need to tell anybody what the result of the roll is. Dice rolls have two settings: Public and Private. Public checks are displayed to everybody nearby, and private checks are only visible to the player. In both cases, the DM sees the result. That's about it... pretty simple. I hope this information is useful to some of you out there. Just thought I would turn this back on the DM's regarding what I recently found out about a DMFI wand we have access to. The DMFI DM Dicebag will allow us to 'force' a skill check on a PC or on all of the PC's in the area at once. There are several different reporting options available that you must set before you roll the check. The default is to send a PM of the check to the PC and of course show's on the DM channel. There are options which will only show the result to the DM's and one that will announce the results to all PC's in the area. This, and all the other DMFI wands can be created by using the DMFI exploder widget (Items->Custom->Misc->Tutorial) without having to create each wand seperatly. ~Alosynth  Dens Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Total Posts: 1221 Send PM   Re: HOWTO: Rolling Skill Checks Posted: 21 Oct 2003 09:44 AM hmm, can the wand roll something for the entire party? Dens You are more than welcome to ignore my spelling mistakes =p  Landru Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Total Posts: 740 Send PM   Re: HOWTO: Rolling Skill Checks Posted: 21 Oct 2003 10:28 AM Just thought I would turn this back on the DM's regarding what I recently found out about a DMFI wand we have access to. The DMFI DM Dicebag will allow us to 'force' a skill check on a PC or on all of the PC's in the area at once. There are several different reporting options available that you must set before you roll the check. The default is to send a PM of the check to the PC and of course show's on the DM channel. There are options which will only show the result to the DM's and one that will announce the results to all PC's in the area. This, and all the other DMFI wands can be created by using the DMFI exploder widget (Items->Custom->Misc->Tutorial) without having to create each wand seperatly. Knew about this one... but I like for the players to roll their checks. ;) Question Authority!  Dens Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Total Posts: 1221 Send PM   Re: HOWTO: Rolling Skill Checks Posted: 21 Oct 2003 10:44 AM especially when the DM is possesing a NPC and doesnt have the wands on him / doesnt posses with all 'DM powers' Dens You are more than welcome to ignore my spelling mistakes =p  Aria Joined: 10 Feb 2003 Total Posts: 1035 Send PM   Re: HOWTO: Rolling Skill Checks Posted: 21 Oct 2003 02:34 PM This came up during last session of Vives-101. Instead of looking through your inventory, you can also type *Strength check* *Persuade check* *Lore check* etc. to roll. Note that the attribute/skill in check must be Capitalized on the first letter (i.e., *Strength check*, not *strength check*) Aria So talented, so troubled.  Landru Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Total Posts: 740 Send PM   Re: HOWTO: Rolling Skill Checks Posted: 21 Oct 2003 03:00 PM One of the things I like the most about the dicebag, is that it is silent. If set on private and the DM says to roll check via "tell", there's no overt evidence that the PC is rolling a check... Kinda preserves the atmosphere a little bit. ;) Question Authority! Previous Thread :: Next Thread  Page 1 of 1   Forums  > General  > General  > HOWTO: Rolling Skill Checks