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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DND_Reborn" data-source="post: 7932746" data-attributes="member: 6987520">Only a much better, non-lame ability, which is much better than those lame-little-bards do. <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    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />We have inspiration points, and they work well, so I'll explain in more detail why I was considering such a system.First, the differences between proficiency at lower levels and the highest levels is not sufficient. If you compare two PCs with proficiency +2 and +6 in a contested check, the lower one has to great a chance to win. Now, in our current game we've expanded the top bonus to +8, which makes it a bit better without having to adjust too many other things.I was looking for a different way to handle it. Spending a HD to get a bonus would allow two things:1. the higher level PC would get a larger potential bonus over the lower level one2. the higher level PC can tap into the resource more often than the lower level oneOriginally, I was just going to use the HD as the bonus itself, as you suggest, but then the die-type could create the bigger bonus, instead of it level-based, which is why I chose proficiency instead.The issue with giving more inspiration is it doesn't help in those cases where getting a higher number is more important than the chance of getting a better number, if that makes sense?Finally, I would like to tie it into an existing system instead of adding a new one, such as Hero points. By using HD, I am forcing the player to consider the reward of a higher result now vs the risk of not having the HD later to restore hp.</blockquote>

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