Quote Originally Posted by Felhammer View Post
Automatically succeeding is boring.

That gets back to the issue of the "Cloaking Device" Rogue that Mike Mearls and Rodney Thompson were discussing in one of the Podcasts.
Why? Why is rolling for everything so much better, or fun? What purpose does rolling for everything serve?

I am not saying that you should be able to build a character that auto succeeds at everything, just that you should be able to build a character that auto succeeds at certain things. Things that should be trivial for that character concept.

So what if a Rogue can stealth around goblins and orcs all day long? He invested a lot into stealth, why deny him the opportunity to use that? That does not mean he should be able to automatically stealth around dragons and beholders.