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CRMcNeill
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 Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2022 7:51 pm Post subject: Negative Difficulty Levels |
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I was looking at my Awareness skill write-up today, and it got me thinking.
Under the RAW, Difficulty levels start at 1 and work their way up. So, under the rules I wrote up, a normal conversation nearby in a quiet room would be Very Easy, with Difficulty increasing as volume, distance and interference ramp up. However, there will be sounds louder than a normal conversation, and thus easier to hear. A Blaster bolt, for example, might have an effective Difficulty of -20, meaning that any listeners will automatically hear it unless it's far off and/or masked by background noise.
Have you ever used a Difficulty number that was so low as to effectively be an automatic Success, and only have a roll be necessary if the applicable Difficulty modifiers brought the base Difficulty above 0?
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Mamatried
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2022 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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I used something similar, with allowing automatic sucess on tasks.
Something with a difficulty of 3 would be automatic for anyone with 3D or 3D+1 in the skill or the Attribute.
However I allow for preople to be simply unlucky and as such 2D+1, 2D+2 would risk a wild dice negative effect. |
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Whill
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2022 11:52 pm Post subject: Re: Negative Difficulty Levels |
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| CRMcNeill wrote: | | Have you ever used a Difficulty number that was so low as to effectively be an automatic Success, and only have a roll be necessary if the applicable Difficulty modifiers brought the base Difficulty above 0? |
Yes. Sometimes there are things that are normally automatic success (and normally no roll needed) unless some factors give it a modifier that gave it possibility of failure.
| Mamatried wrote: | | However I allow for preople to be simply unlucky and as such 2D+1, 2D+2 would risk a wild dice negative effect. |
For automatic things without those negative modifiers I sometimes still have the player roll just the wild die only, where anything but a 1 is a normal success. Even rolling a 1 may still be a success but that may introduce a complication.
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garhkal
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| Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2022 3:40 am Post subject: Re: Negative Difficulty Levels |
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| Whill wrote: | | CRMcNeill wrote: | | Have you ever used a Difficulty number that was so low as to effectively be an automatic Success, and only have a roll be necessary if the applicable Difficulty modifiers brought the base Difficulty above 0? |
Yes. Sometimes there are things that are normally automatic success (and normally no roll needed) unless some factors give it a modifier that gave it possibility of failure.
| Mamatried wrote: | | However I allow for preople to be simply unlucky and as such 2D+1, 2D+2 would risk a wild dice negative effect. |
For automatic things without those negative modifiers I sometimes still have the player roll just the wild die only, where anything but a 1 is a normal success. Even rolling a 1 may still be a success but that may introduce a complication. |
I've had some instances where a sound especially gave bonuses to search/per checks. And i've also done on occasion, the 'you don't need to roll, because your skill dice beats the base diff'..
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