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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8135007" data-attributes="member: 29398">Though you asked this of [USER=7016699]@prabe[/USER], I'll give it a shot if I may:Some rolls are pretty binary, in that what they're trying to resolve in the fiction is binary; being one of 'either A happens or it doesn't' or 'either A happens or B happens'.  The guard sees you or she doesn't.   You lift the boulder or you don't.  You push the door closed first or the Orc pushes it open first.  You hit the opponent for damage or you don't (so yes, combat to-hit rolls go here).Degree-of-success can be applied to many things...including, oddly enough, combat rolls: if your binary to-hit roll succeeds then your degree of success is shown by the damage roll (no, I do not use static damage).  If damage was built in to the to-hit roll e.g. on a hit you do 1 point damage per point your roll exceeded the foe's AC by, then it's be a degree-of-success roll.  Climbing is always degree-of-success: if you succeed is somethingwaiting for you at the top, and if you fail at what  point during the climb does this occur (and are you stuck in place or do you fall).  Just about any social roll would be degree of success and that degree would inform me-as-GM as to the basic reaction of the NPC(s) - if the DC is 10 to gain a favour from someone you're going to get a far more enthusiastic "Yes" on a roll of 20 than you are on a roll of 11; and an "I really dunno 'bout this" decline on a 9 vs a "Get the f--- out of my office!" that a 1 would produce.</blockquote>

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