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Message: <blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 8426361" data-attributes="member: 86653">Not really. Your climbing ability is not related to the difficulty of the wall. You cannot suppose one from the other. You can assume or...Look in the book for the answer. And once you have, you can then surmise your chances to climb a wall...except that the DM still sets the DC based on circumstances in the moment based on the fiction. So your +8 to climb could be spectacular (DC10 with advantage on the roll) or it could be meaningless (DC40 with disadvantage on the roll).I don't think grounded is the right word. Grounded would be grounded in...something. Like grounded in reality. I think comforted is a better word. At a guess, you're comforted by the knowledge that the books list DCs and the assumption that the DM will pick something within that range. Likely because you think that list of DCs limits the DM to that certain known range of difficulty, but that's simply not true. The DM is free to make it an automatic success, automatic failure, or a roll with a DC between 2 and 50+, and use advantage or disadvantage.Right. The unknown is scary. You're concerned that the DM might make a bad or unfair call. I get it. But there's nothing stopping a D&D DM from doing the same. The list of DC in the book doesn't stop the DM from doing any of the things I mention above. So it's a false sense of security.It depends entirely on the particular FKR game and Referee. An FKR Ref is just as capable of telling you that you need to roll an 8+/2d6 as the D&D DM is of telling you the DC is 20. There's nothing preventing that from happening. You just assume it won't or can't. If it's an opposed roll you can see what the FKR Ref rolls with their 2d6 so you know exactly what you need to get. Also, in my experience, most DMs don't tell the player what the DC is before they roll the dice. The DM asks for a roll and the player does so and adds everything up and declares what they got. So the player generally doesn't know what DC they need to hit for success. Some things like the AC of a monster can be worked out in short order, but basically every other roll in the game is rolled "blind."I don't know about that. You think a climber can look at a wall and deduce precisely what their percentage chances of scaling the wall are? That seems more than a bit far fetched. The real-world climber might gauge a wall and guesstimate their chances. But not know exactly what they are. They may have done it a thousand times, but if their concentration falters or they misjudge something, they're still going to fall.Sure. And we all have our preferences. But that's not what FKR games do. There aren't any "surprises" on the mechanics side. Most of them have "roll 2d6, roll high" as their mechanics. What's the surprise? Referee adjudication? You still have that same "surprise" with most other RPGs.Which specific game are you trying to play? Check the discord server. There's a lot of more knowledgeable people there.All the same information is there, but instead of reading the rulebook you ask the Referee.</blockquote>

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