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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LurkAway" data-source="post: 5727536" data-attributes="member: 6685059">With attack rolls, it's binary success or failure, but the damage rolls and conditional effects then moderate that with how much success or failure. Skill rolls don't have that nuance. Probably they don't need to thanks to roleplaying (whereas roll-playing is required to fairly adjucate for hit and damage).Can the merits of d20+mod vs DC and swinginess of die types and probabilities be discussed without knowing what it's all trying to model?For cooking rice, possibilities are:0 - you're not able to make cooked rice at all (no roll allowed)1 - you burn the rice (roll again but pay for more rice)2 - you undercook the rice (but you can roll again)3 - you make clumpy rice4 - you make great rice5 - you make perfect rice6 - you make godly rice(I know this is abstracted in the sense that not all steps are equally probable)Your rank in cooking rice could be:0 - you don't know how to cook rice at all (but just ask someone for instructions, and you'll get a rank!)1 - you know about rice and hot water vaguely (but a little bit of training and instructions will get you to the next rank)2 - you know to boil water, add rice, cover, and simmer on low heat3 - you know the ratio of rice to water should be 1:24 - you are an excellent rice cooker, you know to fluff the rice to separate the grains, that rice pilaf should sauted in oil in advance, etc.5 - you are a master rice cooker, ie. a famous chef6 - you are an epic rice cooker, ie. a God of Food(this is not a linear curve, but a levelling system could make it easy to reach level 1 and hard to reach 5 and hardest to reach 6)A healthy level 6 rice cookier has less swinginess and should make level 5 rice at the worst case scenario, whereas the level 1 rice cookier should have lots of swinginess and achieve level 1 to 3 rice, with a tiny chance of level 4 rice, and no chance of level 5 or 6 rice.So with skill rolls, what kind of DCs are we setting (to cook rice or not, or to make cooked rice of a certain quality) and can the mechanic include a fictional fudge factor that helps us to roleplay with the roll-play and does d20+mod help or hinder with that?</blockquote>

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