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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5594761" data-attributes="member: 54877">Let me rephrase then, since my example was poor.&nbsp; Can you set up this kind of situation within a single skill, and make it make sense?&nbsp;That's often the problem with boiling everything (in a given scope) down to a number, such as with a d20 + mod versus DC system, BTW.&nbsp; &nbsp;I suppose one obvious mechanical solution, within the given skill framework, is to have tasks/skill challenges/whatever that require multiple skills to do.&nbsp; If you have to make a Bluff and a Diplomacy check to succeed for X, but a Diplomacy and Insight check to succeed for Y, then obviously different characters will shine, though a character with a good score in one of the necessary skills, and the 1/2 level + attribute adjustment in the other can at least have a shot.&nbsp; That would mean the DCs would have to be easier (all other things being equal), but that's just numbers.&nbsp; Pick a method, and DCs can be derived that will work.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 5594761, member: 54877"] Let me rephrase then, since my example was poor. Can you set up this kind of situation within a single skill, and make it make sense? That's often the problem with boiling everything (in a given scope) down to a number, such as with a d20 + mod versus DC system, BTW. I suppose one obvious mechanical solution, within the given skill framework, is to have tasks/skill challenges/whatever that require multiple skills to do. If you have to make a Bluff and a Diplomacy check to succeed for X, but a Diplomacy and Insight check to succeed for Y, then obviously different characters will shine, though a character with a good score in one of the necessary skills, and the 1/2 level + attribute adjustment in the other can at least have a shot. That would mean the DCs would have to be easier (all other things being equal), but that's just numbers. Pick a method, and DCs can be derived that will work. [/QUOTE]

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