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<blockquote data-quote="hong" data-source="post: 4067318" data-attributes="member: 537">What I meant was, ability checks being x + 1/2 level would make the 10th level guy better at stuff like kicking down doors than the 1st level guy. Even if it was a wimpy 10th level guy and a beefy 1st level guy. Kicking down doors is the example of a raw ability check. This seems not right, despite the general trend of &quot;high level people are good at everything&quot;.In particular, it means that high level people can regularly win initiative (Dex check) against low level ones. While possibly making sense, it could make it really difficult to run balanced fights if one side is much higher level than the other (even more than it already is).So, the alternative is to treat ability checks as just (stat - 10)/2, while untrained skill checks add the level/2 bit. However, this means that you have to distinguish between situations where you want an ability check, and an untrained skill check.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hong, post: 4067318, member: 537"] What I meant was, ability checks being x + 1/2 level would make the 10th level guy better at stuff like kicking down doors than the 1st level guy. Even if it was a wimpy 10th level guy and a beefy 1st level guy. Kicking down doors is the example of a raw ability check. This seems not right, despite the general trend of "high level people are good at everything". In particular, it means that high level people can regularly win initiative (Dex check) against low level ones. While possibly making sense, it could make it really difficult to run balanced fights if one side is much higher level than the other (even more than it already is). So, the alternative is to treat ability checks as just (stat - 10)/2, while untrained skill checks add the level/2 bit. However, this means that you have to distinguish between situations where you want an ability check, and an untrained skill check. [/QUOTE]

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