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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Balesir" data-source="post: 6801777" data-attributes="member: 27160">Yes, I can absolutely see that, and I even share the outlook, but you appear to have missed my point completely.The point I was trying to make is that these two systems are exactly equivalent, and the chance of the mace being there to be found is affected by the character skill in neither of them.If character skill added onto the chance of the mace being in the tower to be found in system 1, then the rolls become (1) d10+skill for 8+ for a thorough search, as before, and (2) d10+skill for 6+ for the mace to be there - not as before. The percentile system this equates to is not the same as in my original example - it is now a complex scheme like this:- PC skill = 0, chance to find = 15% (same as before).- PC skill = 1, chance to find = 24% (compared with 20% before).- PC skill = 2, chance to find = 35% (compared to 25% before).- PC skill = 3, chance to find = 48% (compared to 30% before).- PC skill = 4, chance to find = 63% (compared to 35% before).- PC skill = 5, chance to find = 80% (compared to 40% before).The chance to find the mace now follows a squared relation to the character's skill, instead of a linear one. The linear realtion between the character's skill and the chance to find the mace actually implies that the PC's skill does not affect the chance that the mace is there to be found - quite the opposite of what you seem to be claiming.In other words, I am not saying that you should find "system 2" to be unobjectionable despite it having a feature you (understandably) don't like - I am saying that you should find it unobjectionable precisely because it does not have that feature.I am not arguing with your tastes - which are incontestable in any case - I am arguing with your maths.OK - that is a very different issue. Do you have any practical advantage that you see for the GM knowing, or do you just prefer to know, as a GM?</blockquote>

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