Skills over the top

[Servin]

Can somebody confirm (or disprove) the rumour I heard a few cycles back wrt to skills?

The rumour is that if your skill (with all the bonuses) + 1d20 >= 100 against a DC, an error in the matrix happens and supposedly it's a fail or some other disaster happens. Latest update most welcome, although I'd like to take this opportunity to say that I do not have a skill of 80 on my char Nor even a 60...

Ta!

[Luna]

I believe that is how it is.

[Eden]

It's damn hard to reach 79 anyway, so you should not have problems.
Maybe with some of the old grandfathered items you will reach that number.
Anyway, the problem should be only for the "active" skill, the ones that requires "checks".

[Passiflora]

Pretty sure it's true. There's some other wonky things about skill modifiers too.

[Maverick 40]

Can that be fixed perhaps?

[Servin]

It's damn hard to reach 79 anyway, so you should not have problems.
Maybe with some of the old grandfathered items you will reach that number.
Anyway, the problem should be only for the "active" skill, the ones that requires "checks".

Lore would be the easiest to reach a 100 with. The items with +5 to lore (2 rings) are cheap as chips, + bardic Lore + warlock lore + spells = Bob's your uncle.

[Deathgrowl]

I can get 89 listen for five rounds or so. Does that mean that if I succeed on a 99, I will actually fail on a 101?

In other words: What are the consequences of rolling over 100?

[illithid]

From what I remember hearing years and years ago, the skills were never really expected to go over 99 and this is essentially the highest value the game handles, so anything past this point essentially rolls over back to the start of the table. So a 101=1, a 113=13. Can't guarantee the validity but this is what i was told.

[Ivan38Rus]

Can that be fixed perhaps?

lol no. This is NWN 2 baby

[Molag__Bal]

I knew some folks that could get hide and move silently up into the low 90's and they never had any problems with being detected. You'd expect them to get detected very frequently if this bug was real, since a d20 would be putting them over 100 more than half the time.

Perhaps if you manage to get your skill up to or over 100 there is an issue. You'd need something like a druid with amplify/C&C wands and the alertness feat to get there though.

[Luna]

Hmm.. Moloag I though we had a few people that were getting detected.

Although on the counter argument I thought Magicshisha had his in the 90s and don't recall hearing any problems from him.

[Aeb Ankor]

Would not this be easy to test with a QC team of someone with over max hide/ ms trying to sneak standing next to someone with no spot or listen bonus and just watch for a few minutes? Should only be seen on Critical Failures, i.e. Rarely

Could also be checked with other skills like maxed survival or craft alchemy vs a dm spawned reward mushroom with skill check of 99/ 101?

Or even a heal skill maxed and a heal kit?

This would show if it was true and affected all skill types

[Ivan38Rus]

I've had a character with 96 Hide/MS and I can say pretty confidently that I've never been detected outside of cases where I should have been (Druid with UMD and bard inspirations).