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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 7237622" data-attributes="member: 6775031">Imagine you're playing Exalted, and you want to craft a non-magical sword. This requires one success on a test, and as an exalted character who cares about crafting swords, you're probably rolling at least ten dice. Since each die has a six-in-ten chance of not generating a success, and you only need one success, your chance of failing to craft that sword is ~0.6 percent. If you were just some chump human, and you were only rolling five dice, then your chance of failing would be a whopping ~8 percent. As you get better and your die pool increases, your chance of success approaches 100% but never actually gets there.Unless you alter the number of dice involved, there's no way easy way to reduce the chance of failure beyond a certain point, because you're limited by the size of the dice. In a d20 system, you can either design a zero percent minimum chance of failure or a five percent minimum chance of failure. If you're rolling 3d6, then you can either design a zero minimum chance of failure or a 1/216 minimum chance of failure. There's no nuance where a master can continue to get better and thereby reduce their failure chance, but with harshly diminishing returns.</blockquote>