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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 6609266" data-attributes="member: 82106">As opposed to craziness in OD&D/BECMI like surprise rolls where elves use a d8 instead of a d6? Or the fact that granularity in these checks is really huge? Actually that last part isn't necessarily a bad thing, you might take a look at the kickstarter for Strike!, it is a 4e-like system that uses a single d6 for all task resolution (combat as well). Its an interesting idea, but early D&D games were a very crude implementation and its hard to understand how the logic of all the various different kinds of dice was ever considered a good idea. I guess it seemed interesting in the very early days, but we're long past that now. A progression of dice sizes may be somewhat useful for say damage rolls, but in other respects its an obsolete concept really. Any probability curve you can devise with various dice can be mapped down to d20 pretty handily anyway, if you really need to. For myself I've settled on d20 using (dis)advantage mechanics ala 5e coupled with a graded success/failure level somewhat like DW or Strike!. I think its actually a pretty decent improvement on 4e's straight up classic d20 mechanics, but in 100 years I'd never go back to the arbitrary "I just picked up some random shape of die and decreed it to be the die used for X" of the early days. The problem is you can't devise logically consistent modifier rules or extrapolate a rule from one sort of check to another because they all scale so differently. This was a huge advantage of 4e (and to a bit lesser extend 3e/d20/PF/etc).</blockquote>

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