Talk:Knowledge as it Should Be (3.5e Variant Rule)
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| Once again, you had a good idea, but then tried to make it "realistic" and therefore fell down a rabbit hole of TL;DR, fractions, and cumbersome mechanics.
Here is how you fix this: "Blah blah fluff fluff brain farts happens, it sucks. "Knowledge checks can be retried after 1 minute spent in thought. Taking any standard action or distracting move action interrupts the process and requires you to start over. If you have at least 5 ranks in a knowledge and focus your mind for 1 minute, you may take 10 on that Knowledge's skill check. "You may try to rush this recall effort as a 1 round action by succeeding on a DC 15 concentration check." That's all you need. The downtime study stuff in the last 2 paragraphs is all needless book-keeping that neither the PC nor the DM wants to have to track. |
- And is it really needed to make concentration required for knowledge recall in tough situations? I'd have it just give a +2 synergy bonus on the check from concentration ranks, but keep the check knowledge. --Aarnott (talk) 17:33, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
- That's a fair point, it felt weird having to involve a second skill, esp one linked to a different stat. Yeah, just make it a knowledge check I guess. - Spanambula (talk) 23:54, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
