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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Salamandyr" data-source="post: 6171596" data-attributes="member: 40233">Agreed.  I'm a little sorry I wrote it, or at least injected it into this thread.  Since it's already garnered responses I won't erase it, but I'm not going to respond or comment on any comments about it, and try to get the thread back to what it's supposed to be about.In your above two examples, though, you're talking about the difference between a highly trained athlete who is not a good hitter (a pitcher maybe), and a slugger--not between a guy who's maybe played some pick up softball sometime and Mark McGuire.  That difference winds up being much larger than a 25% difference.*A lot of the things that characters will be making stat checks for are a lot simpler than that.  Say lifting a big rock or knocking down a big door.  If I (strength 10 or thereabouts) have any chance at all, then someone with a strength of 14 (a highly trained athlete or someone who works out a lot) should have a VERY good chance, not just a 10% better chance.*  And someone who competes in strongman competitions and regularly wins them (strength 20) should be able to lift or knock down whatever I have a chance to pick up or knock down, with an impunity that verges on 100% success.*I realize the 10% & 25% aren't mathematically accurate, and are dependent on the actual DC, but this was a pretty good short hand.</blockquote>