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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 4930793" data-attributes="member: 82106">Well, some translation of existing SCs will be needed whenever you use a different system I would think. Once you have to do that anyway, then why have more than one thing that is variable in the basic parameters of the SC? I really think that is the biggest flaw of the DMG system is it offers too many variables in a context where it really doesn't matter.For example lets consider a hypothetical skill challenge and a party attempting it. If its a complexity 3 challenge at level 4 and you were to determine that the party has an 80% chance of success then what if its complexity 4 and level 3 instead? Lets assume that also yields an 80% chance of success. So what? Why are there two things you can vary here if all permutations of the two variables simply result in some success percentage? Why not have one variable, like Obsidian does, that you can use to vary the success chance to be what you want? In our example SC maybe dropping it to complexity 2 at level 4 gives a 90% success rate, but if making it complexity 3 and level 3 did the same, then I'm just as well off and there's no real point in having this choice to make.Ideally an SC system would have one variable (call it level) and setting it to different numbers gives you a reasonable spread of success rates. Since Obsidian does that I'd say it is doable and at that point why go for anything more complex? Admittedly there may be different ways of running an SC and having the narrative flow through it which may make one system better than another for whatever reason.</blockquote>

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