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If a failure on the very first roll means a failure on the whole thing, then it shouldn't have been an SC in the first place. The point...

An analogy might be combat. We can use the basic to-hit rules to throw a solitary punch at someone, or fire an arrow at a target. In...

Pacing and transparency of stakes.

If you're saying that this is a completely subjective taste thing on your part, then fine. But you seem to be making a broader point...

'Determinate structure', look at Mr Fancy Pants over here ;) I like that term, I imagine I will use it.

It adds a determinate structure. I don't know, as a player, that the GM is going to be satisfied with 3 checks, or if he might decide to...

So you're approaching non-SC skill checks the same way as you approach SC skill checks then? What it adds in principle is a...

See, I don't understand this supposed 'flattening'. Lets say the SC you are suggesting is one that we ran for some characters. I would...

But don't you do this in regular play all the time? You try to persuade the sweet old lady even though intimidate is your higher score...

But this is you choosing to adopt a shallower, degenerate mode of play in response to the added structure. Nothing about SCs forces you...

No it doesn't? Unless what you really mean here is 'the GM's exclusive discretion over the fiction'. What's the point of any dice rolls...

Yeah. 'I try to impress the zookeeper by telling him some animal facts I learned from my Hunt skill' 'I try to sneak up to the guards...

I guess there SCs still fulfil the same role as the rest of the rules, which is to create a structure that aids play even if at times it...

I threw my modem away years ago. Whenever I tried to use it to go online it made a funny noise.

Other people have done the opposite, which is why I posted it. Well, the Oberoni fallacy is about fixing what's broken. Are you saying...