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Message: <blockquote data-quote="evilbob" data-source="post: 6867071" data-attributes="member: 9789">Thanks for all the great replies!  Here are some responses.Exact opposite for me.  "Degrees of success" are easy - been doing that a long while in other games.  (Swimming across a lake, random degrees of success:  you get tired, you do it quickly, you get bit by a fish, you find something in the lake, you start to drown but an attractive stranger pulls you out - seriously, that was 5 seconds.)  Figuring out what's a decent mechanic - and then getting players to think in those terms as well - is the challenge.I know, sorry.But that's basically what I did and came up with basically the same idea.  I'm wondering if there's another way?I think we missed each other in your reply.  I already do those things and it doesn't change anything.  But I'll see if I can check out One Ring, I know it's very popular.As a sidebar, I'm starting to wonder if "truly open class design" and "broken builds" cannot be separated.  But moreso, I think "broken builds" has more to do with the perspective and experience of the player; therefore it's not a "thing" that a system can really solve.  But, everyone has an opinion on this, too - it's also why the world of tabletop RPGs is so wonderfully vast and varied!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />"Yes but."  The system is so tilted in that direction that even indirectly it encourages that mindset.  You can always avoid it, yes:  but it's baked in.  You have to try not to.Thanks!  A few people ignored my plea and still wrote just to explain to me why I'm wrong about how I feel D&D works.  Please don't worry about it.You were very nice about telling me I was wrong, so I'll say:  I've seen too many players, when asked what to do, look at their sheets.  "What do I do?  What are my options?  They are listed here, in front of me."  D&D works toward this; it's part of how it's set up.  Powers are mostly explicitly defined.  It doesn't have to be that way, and other systems encourage different perspectives.No, no, no.  I mean, yes <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> you're technically correct, but that's not what I'm talking about.  End of the day:  still a binary outcome.</blockquote>

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