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<blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 5064577" data-attributes="member: 2011">I think that Stephen Schubert might have been the main WotC math geek. He's still there AFAIK.And I really don't think that the core skill challenge (or the to hit / defense, especially lowest NAD) system would have been broken as bad as it was if they had a real mathematician working it. That just doesn't make sense. The assumption that they must have &quot;tweaked the system after the math geek left&quot; seems suspect.Plus, the new skill challenge system (where reasonably trained skilled PCs make moderate primary checks close to 100% of the time) although better, is still obviously not designed by a mathematician. The primary trained skill guys basically always succeed and the secondary trained skill guys (or primary untrained skill guys who are slightly worse) get the lion's share of the failures, but still often succeed 75% or more of the time. This is an exercise in dice rolling where a high complexity moderate skill challenge of 12 successes before 3 failures is really not that hard to accomplish if half of the checks are primary trained and the other half are secondary trained. 4 successes before 3 failures is a total joke for a moderate skill challenge.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="KarinsDad, post: 5064577, member: 2011"] I think that Stephen Schubert might have been the main WotC math geek. He's still there AFAIK. And I really don't think that the core skill challenge (or the to hit / defense, especially lowest NAD) system would have been broken as bad as it was if they had a real mathematician working it. That just doesn't make sense. The assumption that they must have "tweaked the system after the math geek left" seems suspect. Plus, the new skill challenge system (where reasonably trained skilled PCs make moderate primary checks close to 100% of the time) although better, is still obviously not designed by a mathematician. The primary trained skill guys basically always succeed and the secondary trained skill guys (or primary untrained skill guys who are slightly worse) get the lion's share of the failures, but still often succeed 75% or more of the time. This is an exercise in dice rolling where a high complexity moderate skill challenge of 12 successes before 3 failures is really not that hard to accomplish if half of the checks are primary trained and the other half are secondary trained. 4 successes before 3 failures is a total joke for a moderate skill challenge. [/QUOTE]

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