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<blockquote data-quote="DammitVictor" data-source="post: 9284294" data-attributes="member: 6750908">Basically... all the task resolution is on the same d20. You roll a d20, you add your bonus, you try to meet or exceed the DC.Bounded Accuracy means that the range of possible bonuses is less than 20 (-1 to +17, roughly) and the range of significant DCs is 20 points exactly (10 to 30) so any roll that your character is normally expected to attempt, the best character will always fail on a 2 and the worst character will always succeed on a 19. Most of the time, there will be less than a 10 point (50%) variance between any two characters.Means that any two characters in the same situation are, more or less, playing the same game. They can attempt all of the same basic character actions-- weapon attack, common skills-- and have a reasonable chance of success. The range of defenses between two characters stays consistent, more or less, for all monsters and all levels. (Armor Class, at least. Saving Throws are a problem.) The DM can deploy the same monsters against every member of the party without worrying that a monster can't miss some characters and can't hit others.Near as I can tell, 5e does this fairly decently. I think character non-class and non-spell abilities are too flat between tiers of play, but I'm really impressed by how well they got the game away from numbers go up.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DammitVictor, post: 9284294, member: 6750908"] Basically... all the task resolution is on the same d20. You roll a d20, you add your bonus, you try to meet or exceed the DC. Bounded Accuracy means that the range of possible bonuses is less than 20 (-1 to +17, roughly) and the range of [I]significant [/I]DCs is 20 points exactly (10 to 30) so any roll that your character is normally expected to attempt, the best character will always fail on a 2 and the worst character will always succeed on a 19. Most of the time, there will be less than a 10 point (50%) variance between any two characters. Means that any two characters in the same situation are, [I]more or less[/I], playing the same game. They can attempt all of the same basic character actions-- weapon attack, common skills-- and have a reasonable chance of success. The range of defenses between two characters stays consistent, more or less, for all monsters and all levels. (Armor Class, at least. Saving Throws are a [I]problem[/I].) The DM can deploy the same monsters against every member of the party without worrying that a monster can't miss some characters and can't hit others. Near as I can tell, 5e does this fairly decently. I think character non-class and non-spell abilities are [I]too flat[/I] between tiers of play, but I'm really impressed by how well they got the game away from [I]numbers go up[/I]. [/QUOTE]

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