Originally Posted by Dyphsos
Tried to open the locked Wooden Trunk at the small beach next to the nautiloid.
Couldn't pick the lock although my dice role with the added bonus reached the difficulty.

Lock Difficulty: 5.
Dice Role was 1, but I had a Dexterity Bonus of +2 and a Sleight of Hand Bonus of +2. This would sum up to 5, but the bonus wasn't added to my dice roll.

As currently implemented, a dice roll for a skill check of 1 is an auto fail and your bonuses don’t count. Just as a roll of 20 is auto success. There’s been a lot of debate about whether it should work this way (in 5e it’s only combat rolls that it applies to, I think) and the game doesn’t make at all clear what’s happening, but it is working as currently intended.

(See, e.g. https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=836671 for further discussion on this topic.)


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