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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5573383" data-attributes="member: 19675">First 3.X let's you do this with synergies and aiding another, so that's nothing new.As for more rolls being more dramatic, perhaps...but in a pure statistics sense, you're more likely to fail a sequence of rolls at 75% chance of success for each roll than a single roll at the same odds- cumulatively, the skill challenge drops the odds of success to around 42%.&nbsp; Unless you do your math properly, a skill challenge actually increases the likelihood the PCs will lose.In game mechanics, and thus, in games, give me the single roll every time.&nbsp; I'm much more confident that a GM can look at a test of skill and say &quot;I want the PC to have a 75% chance of success at this task&quot; and do the math for a single roll than doing likewise for a sequence of 3 rolls.&nbsp; Heck, depending on the dice you use to determine success, you may not be able to do that completely accurately within a system: the odds of succeeding a sequence of 3 rolls at 90% chance per roll is 73%...and 3 rolls at 95% chance is 86%.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 5573383, member: 19675"] First 3.X let's you do this with synergies and aiding another, so that's nothing new. As for more rolls being more dramatic, perhaps...but in a pure statistics sense, you're more likely to [I]fail[/I] a sequence of rolls at 75% chance of success for each roll than a single roll at the same odds- cumulatively, the skill challenge drops the odds of success to around 42%. Unless you do your math properly, a skill challenge actually increases the likelihood the PCs will lose. In game mechanics, and thus, in games, give me the single roll every time. I'm much more confident that a GM can look at a test of skill and say "I want the PC to have a 75% chance of success at this task" and do the math for a single roll than doing likewise for a sequence of 3 rolls. Heck, depending on the dice you use to determine success, you may not be able to do that completely accurately within a system: the odds of succeeding a sequence of 3 rolls at 90% chance per roll is 73%...and 3 rolls at 95% chance is 86%. [/QUOTE]

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