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Honestly, the big benefit of "roll within but high" compared to the traditional BRP style "roll within but low" is it doesn't require subtraction. There are other benefits in that you can bake in some thresholds without doing much in the calculation (EP2e does this with 33 and 66) but that's...

I wasn't clear in my expression. "Is the task within your capability" is something that looking at your skill tells you in general. Its saying "I have a 75% skill so in the kind of tasks foreseen as being typical to roll for in the game, I'll pull it off three quarters of the time." As you...

Or, in some cases, understand it well enough to be able to. To some people superhero stories are just kind of weird and alien; they can't get in the heads of superheroes.

Its one of those things that seems to vary considerably. I've never had any trouble with convincing people to play other things than D&D, but then, I've been playing with at least overlapping groups I've known for 40+ years in some cases, but even back in the day (and it wasn't like D&D was...

Not quite the same dynamic though; roll low generally is just directly asking the question "Is this task within your capability?" instead of of doing so indirectly the way roll high does.

Honestly, its two different issues being conflated anyway; wide die range systems (D20 or D100 both land in this) tend to produce very wide variance barring other design elements, but at the other end whether having big gaps between potentially competitive (in the sense they'll be doing opposed...

It takes some getting used to if you're used to conventional roll-low, as a group I ran Mythras for who were long-time RQ/BRP players showed, but I think it serves some good purpose. It also allows some useful application of the range space that might otherwise feel odd, as Eclipse Phase shows.

Own but have never even installed 4, so I'm not qualified to judge.

Was he? I thought Superboy was not a regular member during that period. But its too long and I don't trust my memory. Well, yeah, when he first appeared Clark thought he was a long-lost brother as Lar had amnesia at the time. In the end, its for much the same reason there's a lot of Batman...

While true, I suspect the premise was the animals also likely had better intuitions about these things than we do. Though, that said, the fact humans actually have a pretty good sense of taste is true for an evolutionary reason...

Almost certainly. I have to question how many of the participants in this thread are interested in taking them, though.

What makes you think they're entirely separable?

Some people are really sensitive to the change in graphics over the last few years. Personally with that price (which is, I believe, about eight bucks American, I don't think you could lose, though it took a while for the non-turn based nature of FO3 to settle in for me.

My own observation is that sort thing feels much more visible in play than you'd think, even if the final result doesn't change overly. Of course YMMV.

The problem is that mechanics are only going to get you so far there; if you don't go in with a character prone to act in a superheroic way, there's still going to be constantly off-genre things they're liable to do. And with a typical superhero setting that's actually something somewhat...

That describes an appalling number of jobs at the end of the day.

By evaluation of conversations I've had over literally decades. If that's not good enough for you, feel free to disregard me, but don't wait for me to change my mind because of it.

While its a bridge too far for me, you won't hear me say its not a consistent position. Though I'm not sure I think the proper term is "hold up to player scrutiny"; its more a case that the player must understand the genre enough to understand there are certain steps they don't take and that...

Ironically, I thought PrCs were one of the best ideas in 3e; it was just the execution was often, shall we say, lacking.

For what its worth, I'd have characterized your arguments the same way you do here. :)