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<blockquote data-quote="LurkAway" data-source="post: 5727508" data-attributes="member: 6685059">I like the directness and simplicity of a single die roll, but it does require the DM to do all the work: 1) to know the skill of the PC, 2) to know the skill of the NPC or thing, 3) to evaluate who has the edge or not. The players cannot do this, and aren't really involved at all because they don't know the stats of the NPC so they can't contribute to making an evaluation.However, if you have an opposed roll, then the player can at least feel like he's contributing with a die roll. Also, the DM doesn't need to constantly eyeball the relative difference between PC and opposition with every roll. He just needs to be fair-minded when he initially designed the NPC or thing, or to trust the system to have done so fairly, and then the die rolls will take care of the probabilities.Instead, I would love to have something like the above as a guideline when determining DCs. With no guideline, it can feel arbitrary when determining a DC for an obstacle.If that makes sense?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="LurkAway, post: 5727508, member: 6685059"] I like the directness and simplicity of a single die roll, but it does require the DM to do all the work: 1) to know the skill of the PC, 2) to know the skill of the NPC or thing, 3) to evaluate who has the edge or not. The players cannot do this, and aren't really involved at all because they don't know the stats of the NPC so they can't contribute to making an evaluation. However, if you have an opposed roll, then the player can at least feel like he's contributing with a die roll. Also, the DM doesn't need to constantly eyeball the relative difference between PC and opposition with every roll. He just needs to be fair-minded when he initially designed the NPC or thing, or to trust the system to have done so fairly, and then the die rolls will take care of the probabilities. Instead, I would love to have something like the above as a guideline when determining DCs. With no guideline, it can feel arbitrary when determining a DC for an obstacle. If that makes sense? [/QUOTE]

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