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<blockquote data-quote="Imaro" data-source="post: 7349140" data-attributes="member: 48965">Not really a fan of the SC for a couple of reasons... The first being that the skill or abilities of an antagonist are not taken into consideration.&nbsp; Perhaps overall level is but the actual DC's are set independent of the actual stats, skills, etc. of an antagonist and the fiction is created independent of such as well.&nbsp; But what I don't like even more so is deciding beforehand that X successes are necessary to &quot;succeed&quot; at this task, or for that matter that Y number of failures will &quot;fail&quot; the task.&nbsp; It's letting the mechanical process dictate parameters of the fiction as opposed to letting the fiction inform the mechanical processes.&nbsp; IMO it doesn't take into consideration that the fiction being created doesn't necessarily lead to a resolution of the situation since successes can (and should) be generated for actions that help... what if all you get are X successes of actions that, while helping, do not ultimately do much or anything to resolve the situation... or a more likely issue what if that final success is not a closure type action?&nbsp; This is where I really feel SC's fall down.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Imaro, post: 7349140, member: 48965"] Not really a fan of the SC for a couple of reasons... The first being that the skill or abilities of an antagonist are not taken into consideration. Perhaps overall level is but the actual DC's are set independent of the actual stats, skills, etc. of an antagonist and the fiction is created independent of such as well. But what I don't like even more so is deciding beforehand that X successes are necessary to "succeed" at this task, or for that matter that Y number of failures will "fail" the task. It's letting the mechanical process dictate parameters of the fiction as opposed to letting the fiction inform the mechanical processes. IMO it doesn't take into consideration that the fiction being created doesn't necessarily lead to a resolution of the situation since successes can (and should) be generated for actions that help... what if all you get are X successes of actions that, while helping, do not ultimately do much or anything to resolve the situation... or a more likely issue what if that final success is not a closure type action? This is where I really feel SC's fall down. [/QUOTE]

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