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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7224166" data-attributes="member: 996">I don't know where to begin, there's so much so wrong with it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />&nbsp; It was painfully un-intuitive to roll that d20 wanting high in some cases and low in others.&nbsp; It under-valued level and over-valued stats.&nbsp; It had no sensible provision for varying difficulties - &nbsp;needing to make it 'by so many' notwithstanding.&nbsp; And it crumbled when STR came into it, being unable to handle % scores well, not to mention giant strength.&nbsp; The best variation of it I ever could come up with, which I use when I run 1e Gamma World, is roll high without going over.&nbsp; So if you roll a 17 when your stat is 18, you did really well, and can 'hit' a higher difficulty task, while if you roll a 17 when your stat is 10, you screwed up. &nbsp;Not that ranks were a whole lot better... well, actually, they were a whole lot better.&nbsp;That was the assumption, yes, 'viable' PCs.&nbsp; The top of the range is hard-capped, corresponding to 20.&nbsp; The bottom could go lower for stats under 8.&nbsp;Clearly it could work for DEX.&nbsp; For skills &amp; saves you could receive the 'round up' when you're proficient (or non-proficient, depending on what you wanted to reward).&nbsp; For skills &amp; tools you could pick one 'specialty' either one skill or tool proficiency, or one specific thing you're particularly good at with each, that'd get the round-up.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7224166, member: 996"] I don't know where to begin, there's so much so wrong with it. ;) It was painfully un-intuitive to roll that d20 wanting high in some cases and low in others. It under-valued level and over-valued stats. It had no sensible provision for varying difficulties - needing to make it 'by so many' notwithstanding. And it crumbled when STR came into it, being unable to handle % scores well, not to mention giant strength. The best variation of it I ever could come up with, which I use when I run 1e Gamma World, is roll high without going over. So if you roll a 17 when your stat is 18, you did really well, and can 'hit' a higher difficulty task, while if you roll a 17 when your stat is 10, you screwed up. Not that ranks were a whole lot better... well, actually, they were a whole lot better. That was the assumption, yes, 'viable' PCs. The top of the range is hard-capped, corresponding to 20. The bottom could go lower for stats under 8. Clearly it could work for DEX. For skills & saves you could receive the 'round up' when you're proficient (or non-proficient, depending on what you wanted to reward). For skills & tools you could pick one 'specialty' either one skill or tool proficiency, or one specific thing you're particularly good at with each, that'd get the round-up. [/QUOTE]

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