Do you find traps faster with a high FT score?

Remove all ads!

Will you find traps faster if you have a high find traps score?

 

I think find traps works with a chance to find a trap and a higher score seems to give a higher chance to find a trap. So I would assume that, on average, a higher find trap score would detect traps faster. But you still only detect once per round, it seems, so there's that extra 0-6 seconds delay as well.

 

Yeah, find traps is just a dice roll once per round, same with detect illusions.

 

I wonder what the mechanism is for unlocking, though. While it seems more or less a direct skill check if a thief unlocks something, sometimes difficult locks can be unlocked only after multiple tries. It seems like there is some dice roll, but which is more or less only relevant whenever the lock difficulty is close to your skill level. For forcing a lock it seems to happen a bit more often, too.

 

It's a straight skill check for the most part. Let's say a lock has a difficulty of 40 and you have 50 ranks in Open Locks. In that case you'll be able to open the lock without any issue every time. But if you're a bit short—let's say you only have 35 ranks in Open Locks—then there's a dice roll that allows you to open the lock after several tries. A rather pointless mechanic seeing as there's no cost or repercussions of any kind for just spamming the skill a bunch of times on every lock.