Are Attack Rolls 'checks'?

[Zilvar2k11]

IIRC, pathfinder2 explicitly defines attack rolls as checks, but it's ever so easy to believe something is true and ever so difficult to find an answer one way or another and some days, I couldn't google my way out of a paper bag.

Basically, if a player gets encumbered, do they suffer a -5 to melee attack rolls? While encumbered, you reduce each of your movement speeds by 10 feet, reduce your maximum Dexterity bonus to AC to +2, and take a –5 penalty to Strength- and Dexterity-based checks.

A check is a d20 roll that may or may not be modified by another value. The most common types of checks are ability checks, initiative checks, and skill checks.

I'm not sure. Plain english reading says an attack roll should be a check, but in my experience attack rolls are -way- more common than skill or ability checks and isn't called out the same way initiative checks are.

I don't know. What random piece of FAQ or rule clarification have I failed to locate?

Help? :)

[Nefreet]

Starfinder has 3 types of d20 rolls:

• Attacks (melee and ranged)
• Saves (fortitude, reflex and will)
• and Checks (ability checks, skill checks, starship combat checks; anything with the word "check" in it)

Something that modifies one doesn't affect the others.

EDIT: forgot there's now a 4th—damage—since there are weapons that deal increments of d20.