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<blockquote data-quote="Fanaelialae" data-source="post: 5818406" data-attributes="member: 53980">It may not be as clunky as it seems at first glance. If the DCs are listed as DC 18/14 (18 to auto succeed, 14 if rolled)it wouldn't be the most streamlined mechanic in history, but I certainly wouldn't call it clunky. I don't think it'll be exactly that though, because they could have addressed that more simply with a Take 10 rule. Folks have referred to this as a Take Attribute rule, so it must be something different.Perhaps it is simply a single DC, implying a curve with regard to how stats scale.So DC 18 would auto succeed with Str 18, but require a check of 18 if Str is 17 or lower. In this way, someone with Str 18 is significantly stronger than someone with Str 16 (because Str 18 succeeds 100% where Str 16 only succeeds 30%). The gap between Str 12 and 10 would be much smaller (because while Str 12 succeeds 100% on DC 12, Str 10 succeeds 45%). Hence, the curve in power.In all truth though, I don't think there's enough information for us to do more than guess at this stage. Everyone who does know is under an NDA, and therefore can't say. The rest of us don't even know if we're barking up the right tree. They could have made the attribute/ modifier relationship anything, for all we know.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fanaelialae, post: 5818406, member: 53980"] It may not be as clunky as it seems at first glance. If the DCs are listed as DC 18/14 (18 to auto succeed, 14 if rolled) it wouldn't be the most streamlined mechanic in history, but I certainly wouldn't call it clunky. I don't think it'll be exactly that though, because they could have addressed that more simply with a Take 10 rule. Folks have referred to this as a Take Attribute rule, so it must be something different. Perhaps it is simply a single DC, implying a curve with regard to how stats scale. So DC 18 would auto succeed with Str 18, but require a check of 18 if Str is 17 or lower. In this way, someone with Str 18 is significantly stronger than someone with Str 16 (because Str 18 succeeds 100% where Str 16 only succeeds 30%). The gap between Str 12 and 10 would be much smaller (because while Str 12 succeeds 100% on DC 12, Str 10 succeeds 45%). Hence, the curve in power. In all truth though, I don't think there's enough information for us to do more than guess at this stage. Everyone who does know is under an NDA, and therefore can't say. The rest of us don't even know if we're barking up the right tree. They could have made the attribute/ modifier relationship anything, for all we know. [/QUOTE]

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