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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 4768494" data-attributes="member: 1210">I took this to another level. If you have even a mild understanding of probability, you can tailor the difficulty of an ability check pretty handily by changing the dice rolled on that check.1d20 is a flat curve with easily-predicted results, i.e. if you need a 10 or less, you'll make it 50% of the time. If you make an ability check on 3d6 instead, you make it much harder on pcs with a low stat in that ability and much easier on pcs with a high stat. You can say, "Make a strength check on 2d12" and have is be possible for almost anyone (in 1/2e) but difficult for almost everyone. You want a really hard strength check for anyone but the very strongest 1/2e pcs? Make it a 6d6 check- the bell curve tops out at 21, so only great strength and good luck combined will get you in the door on that one. And so forth.I believe that the basics of this system may have been introduced in Skills & Powers. Might've been in an early product, though- maybe Creative Campaigning or something? I can't quite recall.Sorry for the tangent. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>