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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AllisterH" data-source="post: 4081947" data-attributes="member: 51325">Not really IME.Here's what I want in the skill system. Basically, I want to have everyone involved in the skill system at the same time a la combat instead of the pre 4E Shadowrun system where basically, you get one guy in the spotlight and everybody else simply watching on (and IME, people simply leave the table if it takes more than a couple of rolls). An expert should have a high chance of success (but it should not be automatic ~85-95%) while the general case everyone else should be slightly sweating it (40-60%).Right now, the skill system is akin to everyone going to fight the BBEG yet only 1 guy actually fights the BBEG and everyone else simply watches on. Yeah, yeah, CoDzilla probably could do this and that's a problem there as well  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Furthermore, I want to be able to use the skills even without experts in the party. In a lot of the published adventures, they seem to lack skill checks since I imagine the writers have no idea what is a good skill challenge for a Level X party.You know what's a challenging but beatable combat encounter for a Level X party and I want a skill system that can do the same for skill challenge encounters.Now admittedly, Craft and Profession are a problem but then again, those tend to be individual skills that I don't really consider group checks. Those two skills, I wouldn't even mind that they use the 3.X skill system as I do think they that system better models those specific 2 skills.re: Miniature creatures.I think BECM and OD&D were on to something by not stating such creatures. Personally, I think an earlier suggestion of Passive Perception check with failure indicating poison being taken. As soon as the person recognizes they've been bitten, do active perception check and a success indicates venomous creature is killed.</blockquote>

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