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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 9278369" data-attributes="member: 6704184">Look, we are clearly trying to have different discussions, so I’m going to just clarify the part you indicated was unclear, and then move on. [If] D&D rolled low and had all the same mods… then you’d be making the opposite arguments, [imo obv]By “all the same mods” I mean that a magic item gives a +3 bonus on top of your ability modifier and providency, and there are situational bonuses and penalties, and PCs features could give bonuses, etc.. I then noted in parenthesis that such bonus’s would preferably be to the static number ie the skill or whatever, because making the number you need to roll under into a higher number is more intuitive than subtracting from what you roll. Finally, I am positing that in a world where D&D and other reasonably big games used the described type of system, many indie games would go the other way with few if any mods to a roll-high, and overall you’d associate fiddly modifiers with rolling a low number to succeed. The whole paradigm would reverse. Because the fiddly modifiers are the issue. </blockquote>