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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kannik" data-source="post: 9803647" data-attributes="member: 984">Personally I would bite the PCC go with Option B and the full PbtA method.  Having to shift not just a single target number but a range has more of a cognitive load (7-9 becomes 8-10 becomes 10-12, etc).  I'd rather keep the target number(s) the same and just change the base skill to it's own modifier and go from there, flipping the standard BT modifiers around so that the +s are -s, and the -s are +s.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />As with the gunnery, it then becomes a choice of whether a 7-9 during BT tactical play equals a success and a 10+ is a success with a bonus (which I think on the whole would run better*), or whether only 10+ is a clean success and 7-9 is success with some sort of penalty.  For the former, it's easy:  A standard Pilot has a skill of +2.  For the latter, well, probably want the roll to fall at least mid-way through the partial success range lest it get too punishing, so a skill +3 or +4 would be better.  From the above, and following the same concepts, that would mean standard Gunnery skills would be +3 and +4 or +5.  * Alternately, it could be easy when things move to the BT tabletop could also just drop the narrative bits of the PbtA and just say a 7+ is a success; consequences and rewards are already built into the standard BT system.  And it's not like Lancer hasn't set a precedent for this either, with a different vibe/resolution between the two types of action.  That said, if playing in a type of campaign where the PCs are expected to be novel-level exceptional cases, then a 10+ gaining a bonus remains a cool option.  One easy option for gunnery could be that on a 10+ the player gets to shift the location rolled by 1 after it's rolled.  So if the location roll came up as a 4, the player could shift it to a 3 or 5.  Could get fancy too and say that on a 12+ they can shift it by up to 2.  Other options could be some bonus damage, a bonus to crit rolls, less heat generated, or save them to generate a narrative effect (aka "The script writer is on our side!").</blockquote>

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