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"Is... Is that good? Do I succeed?

"Hang on. We need to math."

"Right. Um... Four. Add four. Eleven?"

"That's success! You may now feel the thrill of victory."

"YYYYEEEEEEAAAAHHHHH~!"

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Darkstand

Wonder if it actually was success, or it was fudged.

Stephen Gilberg

Seven isn't all that lucky in D&D.

Otter Annason

For rolling past a tripwire, i accept 10 as DC. No fudge needed

Joe Blue

if it's a shrink trap, I'm going to be disappointed *shot*

egscomics

(Advanced brain math 🧮) …Is this because Nanase would have avoided being shrunk?

Diego Rossi

Usually it would have been an acrobatic check, and a 1st level Rogue should have a good skill level in it. It depend on what version of D&D you use. Considering when El Goonish Shive has started, they probably play D&D 3 or 3.5, possibly Pathfinder. In all those games the probable bonus to the roll was +8. A result of 15 generally should be more than enough.

Windscion

Tumbling dice, tumbling Nanase.

Daryl Sawyer

Unless it was supposed to be a moderately difficult check, then 15 would have been barely enough.

KC

Probably the latter, but not unreasonable for it to be the former. DC10's not unheard of for a basic acrobatics check to not eat shit

Joe Blue

Oh I'm joking. please I was joking! I'm not acting going to be upset

Wild Card

I like that Ellen was worried that Nanase blew the dice roll and would get caught in her own trap. But it was also a roll in front of everyone else, so everyone saw what the result was. "Roll abvove 10 with bonuses" sounds like a reasonable requirement for success here.

Some Ed

I'm with KC. In this case, it's not getting caught in a trap that was probably designed to get people immediately behind whomever actually tripped it off, so avoiding that would require a fair amount of roll speed. On the other hand, she was running, so she had a fair amount of speed going into it. I could see that giving a situational modifier that turned what would normally be a much higher DC into a DC10.

Some Ed

But it's not rolling past a tripwire. It's rolling through a trip wire, but ending far enough away to be out of the danger zone.