Reliable Talent

Reliable Talent is a passive feature gained by Rogues at level 11. It treats any roll under 10 as a 10.

Description

When you make an Ability Check with a Skill you are Proficient with, the lowest result you can roll on the die is 10.

How to learn

Classes:

• Class level 11: Rogue

Used by creatures:

• Assassin's Folly, Dolor, Elliot, Fishbait Arno, Friol, Lady Lockjaw, Nine-Fingers Keene, Orin, Orin, Roah Moonglow, Snapbone

Notes

• This is a very versatile class feat, as it removes the floor principle of bounded accuracy on all checks where the Rogue has proficiency. When applied, this passive modifies any base roll lower than 10 (including a 1) to a 10; modifiers are still applied afterwards. This can make skill checks of moderate DC where the user has proficiency guaranteed to succeed, and removes the chance to critically fail on qualifying ability checks.
• This passive works well with the Githyanki racial feat  Astral Knowledge.
• This passive also pairs well with any spell, item or racial feat which grants Advantage on checks, such as  Enhance Ability, Gloves of Thievery and Naturally Stealthy. Together, these also work well with  Greater Invisibility.
• If one plans to advance a Rogue character to level 11 for this feat, it may be advisable to either start as a Rogue at level 1 (for native proficiency with 4 skills) or respec with Withers to do so.

Bugs

• For unknown reasons, Reliable Talent is known to fail when rolling a religion check for the Mirror of Loss, failing to function for every other character or so.