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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8226682" data-attributes="member: 6915329">This seems a whole lot more complicated and it puts a lot of work on the DM to decide when it happens. Especially if you include something that has "three steps of metamagic," which would be a completely new system to learn as well. Guidance, bless, and similar effects are magical and should give you an actual bonus (an actual additional d4), not just make your bonus potentially larger (rolling 2d4 has a minimum of +2; roll a d8 has a minimum of +1).You also reduced advantage/disadvantage to just another step on this ladder, rather than the full second d20 it currently is. Don't forget LU is supposed to be backwards compatible, meaning that advantage/disadvantage needs to remain as is.Also, LU has completely done away with the standard Expertise/doubling of proficiency bonus that Rogues and Bards get and some other things grant. The expertise die is a replacement for that. So not having it as a matter of course automatically takes away from some PCs.As it currently is, it's pretty simple. Expertise gets you +1d4. If you get another expertise die in the same thing, it becomes +1d6. If you get a third, it becomes +1d8. And that's it. It's more granular than the binary advantage/disadvantage, but not so granular it becomes, well, Pathfinder-esque. And you can have expertise and ad/disad at the same time--just like you could have ad/disad with a skill you got to use double your proficiency bonus in, in o5e.</blockquote>

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