low in which case i assume the piece of knowledge should be fairly common and anyone might know it for instance identifying goblins or trolls or vampires all people in the game world have probably heard of those creatures and can probably recognize them they might not know much about them but they know at least a little tools and musical instruments if you haven't been trained in their use you simply cannot try to play a harp use brewer's supplies to brew ale or use thieves tools to pick a lock i mean you can try but you will always fail you just don't know how to do it and of course there are other skill checks that are situationally dependent survival i don't know about you but unless i get training i am not going to be able to track anything through a forest unless it's leaving an obvious trail of blood however i can try to hunt wild game i might not be very good at it but it might just get lucky too and i can try to foretell the weather and likely be as accurate as the meteorologists on tv did i just did i just offend all of the meteorologists out there sorry please leave your angry comment down below they're all like luke it takes years of study and training and it's really hard i know i know it is because you're wrong a lot sorry i should stop now number five allowing players to use insight checks to read minds dude seriously that's that's not what insight does you you can't delve into the inner workings of the big bad's mind and understand all of their plans thoughts emotions and favorite kitty cats by the way as a guy who has seven cats yeah go ahead call me cat lady go ahead do it i dare you i can tell you that we don't have favorites insight will help you tell if someone is not being completely honest or seems to be hiding something that's your insight check contested by the other person's deception check by the way but it does have its limits it cannot tell you exactly what they're hiding or planning to do next you cannot read into their body posture and rate of eye blinking that they are about to cast fireball on you however you might be able to tell that they are shifting their weight to their back foot and twisting ever so slightly because they are about to throw a haymaker at your nose now i know yes i know that page NUMBER_TOKEN of the player's handbook actually says that insight can help you determine the true intentions of a creature and even predict someone's next move but take that with a grain of salt use your brain there must be limits to what someone can glean from studying body language speech patterns and mannerisms number six not using failure states and not embracing failures all failures are not alike for some skill checks there is a big difference between failing by one and failing by five or more for other skill checks a failure is a failure for instance if the dc to pick a lock is NUMBER_TOKEN and you get a NUMBER_TOKEN that just means that you're having trouble with one tumbler and you could probably try again however if you roll a four maybe that lock is just beyond your skill or maybe it just means you can try again but it will take a lot longer than it should to pick the lock if you make a dexterity saving throw to not fall off a
START_INTERACTION_TOKEN did i just did i just offend all of the meteorologists out there sorry please leave your angry comment down below they're all like luke it takes years of study and training and it's really hard i know i know it is because you're wrong a lot sorry i should stop now number END_INTERACTION_TOKEN