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Poll Question: In your game, on average, how frequent are stat checks?

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Never

(3 votes, 20%)

Once per 4 sessions or less

(0 votes, 0%)

Once every other session

(2 votes, 13.3%)

Once per session

(6 votes, 40%)

2 - 3 times per session

(3 votes, 20%)

4 - 6 times per session

(1 vote, 6.6%)

7 or more times per session

(0 votes, 0%)

Poll Totals:
Total Votes: 15
Total Voters: 15

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Stat check frequency
« Thread Started on May 9, 2012, 8:19pm »

Ongoing discussions have me wondering. Obviously this will depend on the goings on in the session - is it more roleplaying or what. Let's say its mostly a dungeon crawl session, and let's say its 4-5 hours.

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Re: Stat check frequency
« Reply #1 on May 23, 2012, 1:17pm »

As needed depending on how daring/foolish my players are being. It really varies quite a bit.

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Re: Stat check frequency
« Reply #2 on May 23, 2012, 5:07pm »

I'm voting "never", although it's tricky. I use 5+ on 1d6 to check for various things. It's possible that a high or low ability score may kick in a +/- 1, but it's also possible multiple stats, or no stats, will be involved. So is it a stat check? I'm saying "no", hence my answer of "never". Otherwise, it would probably be at least 4 to 6 times a session, if not more.

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Re: Stat check frequency
« Reply #3 on May 25, 2012, 7:51pm »

May 23, 2012, 5:07pm, talysman wrote:

Good point. I do exactly the same kind of thing, and I wasn't thinking of that as a stat check. What I was thinking of were things like:
a. roll less than or less or equal stat on 1d20
b. roll less than or less or equal stat on xd6
c. roll less or equal n times stat on d% (with n=5 being the same as roll less or equal stat on d20 of course).

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Re: Stat check frequency
« Reply #4 on May 29, 2012, 7:15pm »

I voted once every other session, based on the last two games I ran (last week and two weeks before that).

There were no checks then, but I used to call for a couple per player per session last year. I gradually switched to just saying 'yes' if they have a 13 or higher in the relevant attribute, though I'm not fully committed to that either.

It really depends whether failure is interesting or not.

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