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Your daily reminder that"Nat 20" doesn't apply to skill or ability checks. It's applies to combat only.
It does in fact apply to skill checks and ability checks. Nat 20 just means rolling a 20 naturally on the dice before any modifiers are added :) I think what you meant was that "critical success" only applies to combat! In this instance, the natural 20 still means it's the highest possible roll for an ability checks which gives it the highest possibility of success.
Just a daily reminder that someone can always come around and surpass in pedantry. (Sorry I couldn't resist :) No hard feelings meant)
Bad faith and pedantry aren't the same.
The comic very clearly implies that the nat 20 caused their dumbass character to be able to decipher the runes.
If it didn't, the player wouldn't have announced "Nat 20", but the actual score, wirth modifiers taken into account.