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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Harr" data-source="post: 4123707" data-attributes="member: 47190">I agree with all of this, and I'm actually just about to run a game with this challenge system as well, in a couple hours <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I'm keeping the 5-point step difference though, 5 points (25% chance) seems to me to be a good difference to wager an extra success or failure on.I've heard some people say that their DDXP DM did *not* let them choose their difficulty, but rather set it to his own judgemente from their descriptions, others say that it was their own choice. I'm keeping it the player's choice because I think it's a lot more compelling this way, letting the player himself choose the amount of risk vs reward.As for Success/Failure, I'm going with 3/2 for small quick challenges, then 6/4, 9/6 and 12/8 for large and larger (and more important) challenges. The players will not know the size of the challenge but will now they have to get more successes than failures.I'm also thinking about setting a general Challenge DC for all checks (ie, 'this challenge is DC 18') then easy and hard checks would simply be a 5 step up or down from that number (ie, easy would be DC 13, Medium DC 18, and Hard DC 23) to keep the whole thing consistent and snappy.As for what checks are allowed, when the player himself can describe a concrete and plausible action using a skill, in a way that advances the challenge, as agreed on by everybody at the table (or adjudicated by me if arguments pop up), then he can decide on a level of difficulty and roll. If he can't describe the action and get everyone to agree that it makes sense, then he can't roll. Simple as that. Repeat-skills are usually not allowed except when it makes sense.What else.. oh before the challenge starts I make it clear what the challenge is (whether it's something that was acted on by the players themselves or something I decided to srping upon them) and what the stakes of success and failure are. After the challenge is over, I describe two or three possible courses of action that they take depending on the results they got, which will lead on to other challenges, combats, and scenes.That's what I'm planning <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> and I gotta say, the system itself has made me more psyched to run a game that I've been in quite a while.</blockquote>

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