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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Asher" data-source="post: 779948" data-attributes="member: 10601">A few thoughts:1) I favor disallowing the ability to "take 20" for Hard Focus rules, as DbS said.  However, I'd like to permit "taking 10", simply because it's convenient and doesn't unbalance or break anything as far as I can tell.2) I think every character should be understood to have proficiency in Masturbation:self, unless their sexual alignment prohibits it.  For one thing, self-stimulation is not at all the same kind of expertise as stimulating someone else of the same sex.  Also, it makes little sense to me that a heterosexual female character with 1 Prowess rank, for example, should have to take Masturbation:female as a proficiency just to get herself off in private -- she will never meet that DC 20 if she has the -4 Prowess check penalty for lacking the necessary proficiency.3) The example above isn't entirely accurate, because Masturbation adds +2 to the DC for Climax.  Thus, even if we grant the female character an innate Masturbation:self proficiency, she still won't meet that DC 22 with only 1 rank in Prowess to add to her roll.  This and other strange phenomena result from the DC table as it now stands.  Another scenario which I tested is that of a newly wedded Commoner couple, neither of whom has any Prowess ranks or proficiencies.  With his -4 Prowess check penalty for lacking proficiency, the husband will statistically never meet the DC 20 necessary to bring his wife to climax.  In short, the sexual novice is completely screwed, and not in the way that he or she wants to be.4) I've been testing the variant rule I mentioned a couple of days ago, wherein the DC values for higher states of arousal reduce gradually over time as the character remains aroused.  It seems to work well as an antidote to the aforementioned problems: if a novice simply keeps at it persistently enough, he's likely to succeed eventually.  If we don't want to monkey with the DC table, I'd definitely include the "gradual DC reduction" rule as a sidebar.You can probably tell by now that the Commoner is my yardstick to see whether a rule passes the realism test.  If there's a big discrepancy between what an average person can do in the game and what an average person can do in real life, that makes me dissatisfied with the rules.  Hopefully I'm simply overlooking some factor that eliminates the strange scenarios I described above; if I am, please educate me!</blockquote>

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