Are the bonus to skill checks applied in the background? For example I needed to make a Int skill check on a DC of 7 and I have a +1 to Int. My roll showed a 6 but I still failed. So are bonuses not being applied correctly or is the game in this instance rolling a 5 and then adding the +1?
The game mechanic is subtracting your skill modifier from the DC you need to hit and then just rolling a straight D20 against the modified DC, rather than the D&D version where you roll D20 + modifier against a set DC.
So in your example, the initial DC was 8, and the engine modified that down to 7, and then rolled a D20 with no modifiers on it against that number.
