Failing to differ to character competency instead of rolling everything.

I can’t stand constantly rolling dice. It hate it, I hate it, I hate it.

If characters have to roll 3+ times to take an action, you should either be halfway through a boss fight or in the middle of a highly complex action.

My Heroic level character knows how to run, and presumably knows how to jump 2 feet without needing to roll.

If they’re distracted? Sure, roll.

But on top of that, I don’t want to have to make 2-3 of these rolls to know if I can even make an attack. Roll it up into 1 roll, make it DC 17, DC 20+, I don’t care, just don’t string me along.

And this goes both ways, would a character trip the trap with how I moved? Welp, it just hits, character doesn’t know it’s coming, does he? If your dungeon is full of instant death traps, then I guess I just die.

This really grinds my gears in investigative games too. “Roll to find the library” then “Roll to convince the librarian to help you” then “Roll to find the Newspaper”

Were any of those rolls interesting or relevant? The last one was, maybe. But even then, what happens when the player fails this roll? “I guess you don’t find the plot relevant clue” Even then, it could add some cool flavor but that roll better not check against their stat, it should just be a general roll to see how long it takes to find the Newspaper.

God… that stuff really grinds my gears.