Talk:Knowledge as it Should Be (3.5e Variant Rule)

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RatedDislike.png Spanambula dislikes this article and rated it 1 of 4.
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)