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<blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 8806926" data-attributes="member: 907">My experience with such systems is fairly limited – I've read a few but haven't actually gotten to play any.The main problem I've seen have been how to handle participants on the &quot;wrong&quot; side – either PVP combat, or NPC allies (or possibly complicated situations with three or more sides). In some systems, this is fairly easy. In Symbaroum for example, the system is actually symmetrical, it just assumes that NPCs roll average so if you for some reason need to have an NPC attack another NPC, you can easily reverse-engineer what the stats would be.In others, not so much. In Cypher System, for example, everything has a difficulty level, and for a PC to succeed at something they have to roll above or equal to the difficulty level x3 on d20 (modified by traits and expended effort). But there's no way for the system to handle a level 3 creature fighting a level 4 creature other than by fiat saying that the level 4 creature wins – sure, but how long does that take? Does it take any damage while doing so? And so on.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Staffan, post: 8806926, member: 907"] My experience with such systems is fairly limited – I've read a few but haven't actually gotten to play any. The main problem I've seen have been how to handle participants on the "wrong" side – either PVP combat, or NPC allies (or possibly complicated situations with three or more sides). In some systems, this is fairly easy. In Symbaroum for example, the system is actually symmetrical, it just assumes that NPCs roll average so if you for some reason need to have an NPC attack another NPC, you can easily reverse-engineer what the stats would be. In others, not so much. In Cypher System, for example, everything has a difficulty level, and for a PC to succeed at something they have to roll above or equal to the difficulty level x3 on d20 (modified by traits and expended effort). But there's no way for the system to handle a level 3 creature fighting a level 4 creature other than by fiat saying that the level 4 creature wins – sure, but how long does that take? Does it take any damage while doing so? And so on. [/QUOTE]

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