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30% I understand.
50% I also understand.
But 75% and over? Really?

Very high DC's?

There's a handful of doors I know that take a DC30 to lockpick.

But, you know.
Get your high dex character with sleitgh of hand proficiency [expertise], guidance, cat's grace, Bardic Inspiration and presto. Maybe roll twice.
Failing all that..... KNOCK. But those instances are stupidly rare. I'm actually surprised there are *so* many DC10 locks everywhere that your 10Dex Cleric can lockpick. What's the point of having a thief these days? Or rather, why do people in this world bother with locking things?

Now, certain dialogue choices are high, for sure - convincing that Red Dude to join your team instead of his boss' team. But that *should* be hard and only possible if you're the smoothest talker since Christopher HItchens. Then again, these DC's are at the very end of the game, too - where you have sufficient means to boost your abilities.

And, there is of course a handful of the 99 rolls. Those can only be succeeded on a nat 20; but that too is by design. You know, 'resist the big bad' or 'lockpick the most secure vault door on the Sword Coast'

I wasn't talking about doors or chests. For a DC30 there is still Knock. That Mr. Y. is difficult to convince makes a lot of sense. It's mainly some perception checks where you skip content. Why? What makes it great to seal of parts of the game by random events? Or the scene where the game tries to change your appearance. Some name it consequences, I name it garbage.

Early after release you needed a very high number to save Shadowheart, a 30, that's seemingly toned down. I wanted very much to save her and I rolled one of the two 20 I got in my first playthough at this event. But I still was not very satisfied about the design.

It would be nice if someone could create a mod that either collects all the rolls during gameplay and saves them somewhere, or generates a few (tens-, hundred-) thousand rolls and saves a report. After 900 hrs of gameplay i also cannot shrug off the idea that the dice rolls are lower than they statisctically should be for an unloaded D20.