just increase UMD and make it a skillcheck (ie, just make UMD DCs higher and yeet this Lore silliness)

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just increase UMD and make it a skillcheck (ie, just make UMD DCs higher and yeet this Lore silliness)

Post by Red Ropes » Mon Oct 14, 2019 10:25 am

DnD 3.5 UMD DC thresholds wrote: Activate blindly 25
Decipher a written spell 25 + spell level
Use a scroll 20 + caster level
Use a wand 20
Emulate a class feature 20
Emulate an ability score See text
Emulate a race 25
Emulate an alignment 30
http://www.d20srd.org/srd/skills/useMagicDevice.htm

in DnD UMD, which is the skill that does all this business, using magic devices... determines... whether or not you can use them.

Why not use a more reasonable threshold for magic devices, roughly based on that and make them skill checks (IE, roll to use)

Breaking up UMD between two skills just makes everything starved, punishes non-humans, non-int based classes, and basically ensures that warlocks, druids, spellcasters in general rule the world with an iron fist
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Re: just increase UMD and make it a skillcheck (ie, just make UMD DCs higher and yeet this Lore silliness)

Post by Irongron » Mon Dec 16, 2019 8:31 pm

Rejected.

There was talk of having a roll, but it was decided that when it comes to using scrolls or magical devices even a small % of failure would be too frustrating for many players.

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