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<blockquote data-quote="Whimsical" data-source="post: 2111868" data-attributes="member: 3976">If you have access to the Dragon magazines that came out when 3e premiered, there's an article by Monte Cook that explains the fundamentals of the d20 system.To do just about anything, roll a d20, add a stat modifier, then add ranks or base attack bonus, then any miscellaneous modifiers. Almost everything is resolved this way. For those checks that have nothing to do with your stats, percentiles are used.The baseline of those d20 checks are +0. A stereotypical commoner has +0 in everything. What's his attack roll? +0. What's his reflex save? +0 What's his spot check? +0. After rereading this article, I used this idea when running Deadlands d20. As a minor encounter, the brother of a bad guy that the party killed last week called out the sharpshooter for a duel. He's just an unremarkable unskilled teenager whose just trying to avenge his brother, so all of his stats were 10 and everything else was +0. So when they drew I just rolled the d20 and used what came up for his inititave, then his attack. He had a armor class of 10.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Whimsical, post: 2111868, member: 3976"] If you have access to the Dragon magazines that came out when 3e premiered, there's an article by Monte Cook that explains the fundamentals of the d20 system. To do just about anything, roll a d20, add a stat modifier, then add ranks or base attack bonus, then any miscellaneous modifiers. Almost everything is resolved this way. For those checks that have nothing to do with your stats, percentiles are used. The baseline of those d20 checks are +0. A stereotypical commoner has +0 in [i]everything[/i]. What's his attack roll? +0. What's his reflex save? +0 What's his spot check? +0. After rereading this article, I used this idea when running Deadlands d20. As a minor encounter, the brother of a bad guy that the party killed last week called out the sharpshooter for a duel. He's just an unremarkable unskilled teenager whose just trying to avenge his brother, so all of his stats were 10 and everything else was +0. So when they drew I just rolled the d20 and used what came up for his inititave, then his attack. He had a armor class of 10. [/QUOTE]

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