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<blockquote data-quote="Pedantic" data-source="post: 8910059" data-attributes="member: 6690965">You're describing a whole different aesthetic of play here than what I'm trying to do at my table, and I'm not at all sure having a level based, increasing proficiency system serves and purpose in the kind of game you're proposing at all. Surely you'd be better served by flat numbers, and modeling the narrative tension by adjusting the percentage chance of success through the DC, assuming you'd want a randomizer at all.I want players to make optimal, strategic decisions. I want them to prefer a course of action over another because they think it has a better chance of success and will more efficiently achieve their goals. I want to throw them problems, and have them comb through their toolboxes, which will include skills and spells and equipment and so on, and then use that to overcome those problems.All that drama and narrative stuff is not involved in action resolution for me, it's part of goal setting. The narrative is where my players source their victory conditions from, why they decide they need to break into this building, or kill this person, and so on, and then we play a game to try and &quot;win&quot; whatever it is they've decided constitutes victory. This will lead to some dramatic moments, and this will lead to some easy victories and that will be out of my control.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pedantic, post: 8910059, member: 6690965"] You're describing a whole different aesthetic of play here than what I'm trying to do at my table, and I'm not at all sure having a level based, increasing proficiency system serves and purpose in the kind of game you're proposing at all. Surely you'd be better served by flat numbers, and modeling the narrative tension by adjusting the percentage chance of success through the DC, assuming you'd want a randomizer at all. I want players to make optimal, strategic decisions. I want them to prefer a course of action over another because they think it has a better chance of success and will more efficiently achieve their goals. I want to throw them problems, and have them comb through their toolboxes, which will include skills and spells and equipment and so on, and then use that to overcome those problems. All that drama and narrative stuff is not involved in action resolution for me, it's part of goal setting. The narrative is where my players source their victory conditions from, why they decide they need to break into this building, or kill this person, and so on, and then we play a game to try and "win" whatever it is they've decided constitutes victory. This will lead to some dramatic moments, and this will lead to some easy victories and that will be out of my control. [/QUOTE]

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