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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nagol" data-source="post: 6934124" data-attributes="member: 23935">Disclaimer, I don't like the mechanic either.  My complaint is it is yet more fiddly numbers for the poor overloaded DM to keep track of.If you use it as fortune-at-end, it works as you describe.  I see it more as a fortune-in-the-mddle.You're going to sneak through the library?  We roll dice.  That lets you as the player know more concretely the limits of your fortune for this endeavour  -- those limits can be tied to circumstantial/environmental conditions, the level of alertness among opposition, and so on.Now the player can decide to take risks -- or not -- based on the player's assessment of risk vs. reward.  It also means the DM can move the scene through to the point where it matters if the roll were high or low.You have two basic scenarios: <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The highest roll is low enough that the basic tasks fail.  The DM narrates up to the failure and play continues normally.  </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The lowest row is high enough that basic tasks will succeed.  The DM narrates through the scene unless the player attempts something more difficult.  If the DC rises to the point where the lowest roll won't succeed (and the highest will still succeed), the control die is thrown to determine outcome</li> </ul></blockquote>