Thursday 20 March 2014

Opposed stat checks are pretty great

Stat checks. Easy. 


Roll d20 and get equal to or less than your stat to succeed, rolling exactly your score is a major success.
Bonuses and penalties will be made up on the spot at the time. 


Pretty standard except that rolling on your score is a critical success which makes you succeed extra good.
Some people like grades of success but I don't really care for them on a regular skill check. 
Major success is fine though because I can go "hey you succeeded and it was way cooler than you thought!".

Let's step it up a notch with opposed stat checks.

Both parties roll d20 and try to get as high as possible while remaining under their stat.
Both under stat: Highest roll wins.
Both over stat: Lowest roll wins.
One under, one over: Under-roller gets major success (ie. Gets what they wanted plus extra good stuff!)
Rolling exactly your stat is a crit and a major success. If both sides crit, highest wins.


I'm sure I saw something similar a million years ago on some shithead's blog but I can't find it.
Anyway, I figure that unlike a lone stat check, someone is always going to succeed at a contest one way or the other.
Easy to understand and seems to be working great in play so far.

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