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<blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 8742924" data-attributes="member: 71699">[USER=82106]@AbdulAlhazred[/USER] I have some of your posts to catch up on, but meanwhile I found some math here on Enworld (from 2008) on SC probabilities[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.enworld.org/threads/skill-challenges-bad-odds.238674/[/URL]Just as with Group checks in 5e, it's quite important for a group to have grokked these odds when they implement the system (because they decline more sharply than is sometimes intuited.) The RC came out in 2010, and perhaps the Advantages rules, along with the prescribed mix of difficulties at each complexity, were the designers' proposed solution to the maths problems. I suspect understanding and implementing the Advantages (you might like to call that that reifying the intent of previous handwaving, heh) is very helpful for groups to get SCs to work well at their table.[USER=82106]@AbdulAlhazred[/USER] this is partially a response to your thought thatThe RC is written as it is to tackle the maths problems of the earlier takes. My view is that it's pretty important for successful application to follow that design as written.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="clearstream, post: 8742924, member: 71699"] [USER=82106]@AbdulAlhazred[/USER] I have some of your posts to catch up on, but meanwhile I found some math here on Enworld (from 2008) on SC probabilities [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.enworld.org/threads/skill-challenges-bad-odds.238674/[/URL] Just as with Group checks in 5e, it's quite important for a group to have grokked these odds when they implement the system (because they decline more sharply than is sometimes intuited.) The RC came out in 2010, and perhaps the Advantages rules, along with the prescribed mix of difficulties at each complexity, were the designers' proposed solution to the maths problems. I suspect understanding and implementing the Advantages (you might like to call that that reifying the intent of previous handwaving, heh) is very helpful for groups to get SCs to work well at their table. [USER=82106]@AbdulAlhazred[/USER] this is partially a response to your thought that The RC is written as it is to tackle the maths problems of the earlier takes. My view is that it's pretty important for successful application to follow that design as written. [/QUOTE]

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