You can add your proficiency bonus only once and multiply or divide that bonus only once, but adding half your proficiency is still adding your proficiency, so Reliable Talent does stack with Jack of all Trades/Remarkable Athlete according to the RAW.
What is reliable talent 5e?
Reliable Talent By 11th level, you have refined your chosen Skills until they approach perfection. Whenever you make an ability check that lets you add your Proficiency Bonus, you can treat a d20 roll of 9 or lower as a 10.
What reliable talent affects?
Reliable Talent makes your proficient skills passive. Well, not really. It treats your rolls on proficient skills as a 10, if you roll worse. Passive skills function in much the same fashion, giving you a floor of 10 + modifier on your relevant skills under normal circumstances.
Do you still need a nat 1 Nat 20 Auto fail?
Meaning they would still need basically a natural 20 to pull off. The nat 1 nat 20 auto fail or success is a common house rule however so its a good idea to check at the table. Also. While they do get high skill bonuses and theoretically astronomical rolls on them rolling a 26 is not neccisarily a success.
How does rolling a 1 on a skill check play out?
Your DM might use a house rule that a natural 1 is a critical fail for an ability check. By the rules as written, is is not – the “critical fail” and “critical hit” rules are applied to attack rolls and death saving throws, but not to ability checks.
What’s the minimum proficiency for a natural 1?
A Natural 1, as with a Natural 20, only affects attack rolls and death saving throws. It affects nothing else. A rogue with expertise, +5 ability mod and reliable talent can get a minimum of 20 + their proficiency. At level 20 this is, indeed, a minimum of 26 and their maximum is 36.
How are passive skills the same as reliable talent?
If you fail to, your passive perception is still active. It is effectively creating that minimum.” If passive skill scores are always on, they function just the same as Reliable Talent. The Observant feat shows us that Intelligence (Investigation) checks also function as passive checks.
