Quote Originally Posted by Draz74 View Post

Frankly, I think the way this needs to get resolved is to explicitly make separate mechanics for single-roll situations as opposed to many-roll situations. At the simplest level, what if Skill or Ability Checks with an important individual result were made using 1d10 or 3d6 instead of 1d20, while in-combat 1d20 rolls remained unchanged? Would that strike everyone as a relatively effective patch to the problem?

But then you have subsystems which Thiago doesn't like!