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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Salamandyr" data-source="post: 6122751" data-attributes="member: 40233">Doing it the way the OP suggests has one very good thing to say for it...DM psychology.  Ideally, the DC for most challenges in the current packet ought to be DC10.  Somebody with no particular talent one way or the other has a 50/50 shot at success while someone with Arnold Schwarzenegger/Albert Einstein levels in an attribute has a 75-80% shot.  Some stuff should be even easier, because let's face it, the smartest/strongest people should be autosucceeding at a lot of things that are an interesting challenge to those of us laboring in the 8-13 range of the attribute bell curve.  So we should see a fair number of DC 6's & 7's But let's face it, nobody at the table is going to want to let a roll of 5 be a success.  It just feels wrong to let something succeed when it hasn't even made double digits.  So what we're actually going to see is most challenges being being DC 15 or better where Paragons of talent in an an attribute have a 50/50 shot or less to succeed, and anyone else shouldn't even bother.So attribute-10 does allow for greater granularity and DC's that feel more "right" to the players at the table.  It has the disadvantage of creating two different mechanics, and if we're going to do that, we might as well rid ourselves of the tyranny of the d20 and find a better mechanic for skill resolution like a single d6 or 2d6.</blockquote>