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Quote from: The_Gekko_State on April 21, 2017, 02:54:09 pm

Do skills have critical success and fail roll results, or is it just attack rolls?

Critical/automatic success and fail rolls as in natural 20 and natural 1?  No.  If you have a Jump modifier of +0 you may NOT "roll a 20" to automatically succeed in your attempt to just 12 squares straight up from a standing position.  Similarly if you have a +10 for a skill modifier you will ALWAYS make any skill check at DC 11 or lower.

Now there CAN BE "critical" failures on some skills when your roll is too far below the target DC.  This has nothing to do with the die result but everything to do with the net result.  A prime example of this would be using Treat Injury to Perform Surgery to heal damage:  there is a DC 20 requirement to heal damage but if you check only totals 15 or less then you will cause your patient to take damage instead!  This is why you either need an absolute expert (+15 skill modifier) to make the check and cause no harm or want at least very competent surgeon (+10 modifier) who should be using "take 10" to make sure they exceed DC 15 and should hit DC 20 to always be successful.  Although surgery may not do any good at least a trained (+5) character with any sort of bonus (WIS perhaps) shouldn't kill you by using "take 10" but they aren't going to help you either; unfortunately having them roll with a +6 modifier only gives them a 35% of healing, a 20% of doing no harm, and a 45% chance of causing damage so you've been warned!

There are no critical successes when it comes to skills although some may have ways to increase a DC for added benefits and if you really do well a GM may give you that benefit without trying for it.  If a skill can have a negative outcome you can never "take 20" on it as negative outcomes usually mean you couldn't roll the skill again.