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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Levitator" data-source="post: 3362385" data-attributes="member: 40099">Like I said, I'm not a statistician.  But I have a question for those who are better with crunching the numbers than I.  Would there be a way to reduce the rolling and just use the result as a way to determine success?  Let's say that Roger the Rogue is trying to bluff his way into a posh party.  He has 3 ranks in Bluff and a 16 CHA.  Fred the Fighter has 1 rank in sense motive and a 10 WIS.  With the above system, this would give Roger a +5 to succeed and 3 Success points (just trying on something different than HP  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  ).  Fred would have a +1 to Success and 1 Success point.  As a DM, I would also give Fred a +2 bonus as he was given a guest list and explicit instructions to keep undesireables out.  So his total would be a +3 success.Roger rolls a 19Fred rolls a 14Roger would have a total Success of 24Fred would have a total Success of 13Roger would win by 11, so I was thinking some kind of static rate like 1/2 of the difference = Success points.  Or maybe a scaling system where like 1-2 pt. difference=1 success point, 3-4 pt. difference=2 success points, etc.  Please keep in mind that I'm not suggesting these actual numbers, just the concepts to reduce extra rolling.To use a static system based on the amount of success, or a scaling system where the amount of Success would scale with the degree of Success on the 1st roll.I hope I'm explaining myelf correctly.  I'd love to see what the number crunchers could do with these 2 approaches!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />EDIT:  Oops, it appears my hypothetical numbers are off.  Fred would have had a 17 due to the +2 circumstance bonus so the diffrence would only be 7 points.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" /></blockquote>

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