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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Afrodyte" data-source="post: 6786723" data-attributes="member: 8713">I agree with PointofInspiration in general, but to help you refine your system, I'll offer a few pointers.I play a lot of narrative games, so a more narrative approach to die roll results definitely appeals to me, and I incorporate it into my games when I have the right group (ie, open to doing some of the work of narrating results).Instead of super-complicated lists and multiple die rolls to resolve an action, there are essentially 4 outcomes of a die roll:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Yes, and...means success and a little something extra</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Yes, but...means success with a minor setback or consequence</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">No, but...means failure with a tiny benefit</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">No, and...means failure and an additional setback or consequence</li> </ul>There is no flat success or failure because every die roll should have something interesting or unexpected happen.How you assign those 4 outcomes is up to you, but intuitively, here's what makes sense to me:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Critical success = "Yes, and..."</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Success = "Yes, but..."</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Failure = "No, but..."</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Critical failure = "No, and..."</li> </ul>To incorporate your suggestion for making it matter just how high a player rolls, you can have something like this:Critical success = 10 higher than DC or natural 20Critical failure = 10 lower than DC or natural 1All that is pretty much a more streamlined version of what you have in the file. But here is where we differ: allow players to narrate success while you (the GM) narrate failure. Something I did with my players is that when they succeed on a roll, I'm like, "Tell me what kind of clue you find to track the NPC" or "Tell me how your attack connects but doesn't kill the creature."It was a lot of fun for them, and it eased up the pressure of GMing after not being in the chair for a long time.</blockquote>

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