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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 8151623" data-attributes="member: 6779310">The DGP CT task system differs little from the MT one.  MT adds some special cases in the ref's manual, and the research rule  Referee's Companion. But it's still 2d6 + Asset1 and Asset 2, with an asset being any one of (Att/5), Skill level, or computer model, by the book, plus in some adventures, Rank or Terms.As for the "One True Way" guys, I mean each guy picks one mode, and claims that was Marc's intended method for everything, potentially excepting combat. (Marc maintains that he's always used Xd6 ≤ Att+Skill.)The advantages of the Task System are consistency and easy choice of resolution method. 5 difficulties (plus auto and no chance) and labels that (after doing the math) seem to fit really well for an assumed Att 5-9 and skill 1.The disadvantage of it is that the difficulties are wide steps, and that it's not as flexible as the full panoply of approaches buried in CT.One of the interesting things I've used in MT, and it would work just as well in CT, is letting players apply rank or terms as a skill; this makes up for protocol skills and/or knowledge of service related things other than the core skills. And, like in Burning Wheel, I've happily let players make wises checks to establish facts, a technique Luke was discussing on his boards when I started running BW.</blockquote>