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<blockquote data-quote="ExploderWizard" data-source="post: 4687264" data-attributes="member: 66434">I understand your reasoning, but the definition of &quot;success&quot; is a bit too murky to make things simple. Does success = win? If so, by what margin?&nbsp;As an example, lets take GURPS combat and look at success rates. &nbsp;A character has a weapon skill of 14 or 15, which is fairly skilled. This character will succeed on a &quot;to hit&quot; roll 90-95% of the time. The character will rarely miss unless going for a difficult hit location or is suffering from other penalties.&nbsp;This high success rate isn't a guarantee of any gain at all since the target gets to defend, but psychologically the attacker feels good about the high percentage of solid hits. &nbsp;I feel that a combination of success rate and actual impact of that success are whats important. With a higher random factor, the ability to dramatically impact game events (for better or worse) is improved.&nbsp;A more balanced system will make the failures feel a bit less harsh, but the successes will feel constrained and &quot;capped&quot; to ensure that a single success has a limited effect on things.&nbsp;This makes the overall impact of a given action more narrowly defined which I find to be less fun. I like earth shaking effects in my games and accept the risks of failure that come with them. YMMV of course.<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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="ExploderWizard, post: 4687264, member: 66434"] I understand your reasoning, but the definition of "success" is a bit too murky to make things simple. Does success = win? If so, by what margin? As an example, lets take GURPS combat and look at success rates. A character has a weapon skill of 14 or 15, which is fairly skilled. This character will succeed on a "to hit" roll 90-95% of the time. The character will rarely miss unless going for a difficult hit location or is suffering from other penalties. This high success rate isn't a guarantee of any gain at all since the target gets to defend, but psychologically the attacker feels good about the high percentage of solid hits. I feel that a combination of success rate and actual impact of that success are whats important. With a higher random factor, the ability to dramatically impact game events (for better or worse) is improved. A more balanced system will make the failures feel a bit less harsh, but the successes will feel constrained and "capped" to ensure that a single success has a limited effect on things. This makes the overall impact of a given action more narrowly defined which I find to be less fun. I like earth shaking effects in my games and accept the risks of failure that come with them. YMMV of course.:) [/QUOTE]

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