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<blockquote data-quote="Composer99" data-source="post: 8768666" data-attributes="member: 7030042">Just like <a href="https://rustyandco.com/comic/level-8-3/" target="_blank">Stabs wanted her bar</a> to have the air of exclusivity but not actual exclusivity (because that would mean people leaving before giving her money) - to my mind gameplay should be tailored to player psychology: it should feel challenging to the players regardless of the actual probabilities of success or failure.Note that this means depending on the players at a given table that these probabilities could be different - even very different. A player who just wants to enact a power fantasy in a leisurely game with friends where they all do cool things and kick monster butt is probably going to feel challenged despite a high success rate, while a player who wants to play to D&amp;D's roots as the inspiration for Rogue and its descendants is probably going to want a much lower success rate to feel challenged.If I had to average it all out to a single number for a &quot;good&quot;-at-something PC to perform a &quot;difficult&quot; task related to that something, I would probably also go with 65%. I would actually vote for exactly two-thirds if I could, but you can't roll exactly two-thirds on a d20.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Composer99, post: 8768666, member: 7030042"] Just like [URL='https://rustyandco.com/comic/level-8-3/']Stabs wanted her bar[/URL] to have the [I]air[/I] of exclusivity but not [I]actual[/I] exclusivity (because that would mean people leaving [I]before[/I] giving her money) - to my mind gameplay should be tailored to player psychology: it should [I]feel[/I] challenging to the players regardless of the actual probabilities of success or failure. Note that this means depending on the players at a given table that these probabilities could be different - even very different. A player who just wants to enact a power fantasy in a leisurely game with friends where they all do cool things and kick monster butt is probably going to [I]feel[/I] challenged despite a high success rate, while a player who wants to play to D&D's roots as the inspiration for [I]Rogue[/I] and its descendants is probably going to want a [I]much[/I] lower success rate to feel challenged. If I had to average it all out to a single number for a "good"-at-something PC to perform a "difficult" task related to that something, I would probably also go with 65%. I would actually vote for exactly two-thirds if I could, but you can't roll exactly two-thirds on a d20. [/QUOTE]

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