The Dark Urge perception check

[Triple G]

After you have the incident with the bard in camp, if you wash your hands there is a perception check. What the hell is the DC because I keep failing no matter how often I reload, and I have decent wisdom.

[Steffan]

I do not know, really. Hiding the corpse has always been the best option (nobody comments on Alfira afterwards).

[Triple G]

Originally posted by steffan8:

I do not know, really. Hiding the corpse has always been the best option (nobody comments on Alfira afterwards).

I really wanted to see what I was missing and all it did was say I had some sort of satisfaction with what I did. Why such a trivial thing needed an absurdly high DC is beyond me. I find may of the story based perception checks to be ridiculously high.

[Steffan]

Originally posted by Triple G:

Originally posted by steffan8:

I do not know, really. Hiding the corpse has always been the best option (nobody comments on Alfira afterwards).

I really wanted to see what I was missing and all it did was say I had some sort of satisfaction with what I did. Why such a trivial thing needed an absurdly high DC is beyond me. I find may of the story based perception checks to be ridiculously high.

It might have something to do with clearing the blood off your hands. I can only guess, though.

[RhiTheWitch]

I would recommend not worrying so much about missing checks like that. If you pass it, cool, if not, it's really not worth the stress most of the time. If it's about washing the blood away, it makes sense that memories would be hard for a Durge character regardless of background/class due to the circumstances leading up to their introduction. Minor spoilers The Dark Urge character has literal brain damage so its logical that some checks involving perception especially about their past might be quite high

[Triple G]

Originally posted by RhiTheWitch:

I would recommend not worrying so much about missing checks like that. If you pass it, cool, if not, it's really not worth the stress most of the time. If it's about washing the blood away, it makes sense that memories would be hard for a Durge character regardless of background/class due to the circumstances leading up to their introduction. Minor spoilers The Dark Urge character has literal brain damage so its logical that some checks involving perception especially about their past might be quite high

I wanted to see the result, otherwise I wouldn't have cared. Not every play through is about "rolling with the punches".

[Orion Invictus]

Originally posted by Triple G:

Originally posted by RhiTheWitch:

I would recommend not worrying so much about missing checks like that. If you pass it, cool, if not, it's really not worth the stress most of the time. If it's about washing the blood away, it makes sense that memories would be hard for a Durge character regardless of background/class due to the circumstances leading up to their introduction. Minor spoilers The Dark Urge character has literal brain damage so its logical that some checks involving perception especially about their past might be quite high

I wanted to see the result, otherwise I wouldn't have cared. Not every play through is about "rolling with the punches".

Install a mod to always roll nat 20 on these things. It's the fastest way to find out what happens.

[Dizzy Ladybug]

The combat log should show the passive check's DC

[Toaster Maximus]

Its like a 18 or so meting if I recall right, but given how much blood is on urge's hands and how hard it is to scrub blood off skin and such, you can easily miss some between the fingers, under nails and such

Just be glade the urge does not like going elbow deep in gore, he would never be clean with how savage it is

[Annie Other]

Originally posted by Toaster Maximus:

Its like a 18 or so meting if I recall right,

Really? That high? I got curious and wanted to see for myself. I still have a savegame from that night, so... I ran a little test.

My character had +3 from Wisdom at this point and +2 from the Perception skill profiency.
Not sure it affects the check, but he also had the Bloodless condition.
Would mean a 50/50 chance or slightly lower for a DC 15 check.

I seem to succeed more often than I fail.
Not sure if passing the INT checks earlier in the dialog affect the DC, but when I pass them both, it seems to be near impossible for me to FAIL the Perception check.

I don't have statistically relevant data, of course, as trying 150 times would have been way too much.

In case someone is curious what happens, here is a short video about passing vs. failing the check:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9koQNa7BEn8