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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 5492560" data-attributes="member: 22424">A topic that has been much on my mind lately: they should probably recalibrate the skill system and/or DCs.In d20 Modern, it's possible to build a 1st level character who can Jump better than our World Record holders. (Amusingly, the best way to do this seems to be using the Dedicated Hero: Skill emphasis for +3, Run feat and Acrobatic feat for +2 each, Athlete background to make Jump a class skill, and 4 ranks. That gives a +11 bonus without any Str bonus at all.)Now, the same feat can be achieved in any version of D&amp;D post 3.0e, in any version of Star Wars, and so on. However, those are all clearly fantastical games. d20 Modern isn't quite the same beast, and it would probably be better to put the limits of real-world human ability somewhere higher on the level range.(It can be achieved two ways: either up the DCs, or reduce the ability to super-optimise characters. Either can work. My preference is probably for the latter, in general, following the 4e/SWSE pattern of advancement in skills. But the designers should probably use the records to set the extreme DCs (30 is good), then decide at what level they want PCs to be able to match this, and then set the options up accordingly.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 5492560, member: 22424"] A topic that has been much on my mind lately: they should probably recalibrate the skill system and/or DCs. In d20 Modern, it's possible to build a 1st level character who can Jump better than our World Record holders. (Amusingly, the best way to do this seems to be using the Dedicated Hero: Skill emphasis for +3, Run feat and Acrobatic feat for +2 each, Athlete background to make Jump a class skill, and 4 ranks. That gives a +11 bonus [i]without[/i] any Str bonus at all.) Now, the same feat can be achieved in any version of D&D post 3.0e, in any version of Star Wars, and so on. However, those are all clearly fantastical games. d20 Modern isn't quite the same beast, and it would [i]probably[/i] be better to put the limits of real-world human ability somewhere higher on the level range. (It can be achieved two ways: either up the DCs, or reduce the ability to super-optimise characters. Either can work. My preference is [I]probably[/I] for the latter, in general, following the 4e/SWSE pattern of advancement in skills. But the designers should probably use the records to set the extreme DCs (30 is good), then decide at what level they want PCs to be able to match this, and then set the options up accordingly.) [/QUOTE]

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