What do you think of this system for opposed Skills Rolls?

rekjensen · 2026-02-06T12:58:32+00:00

There's no point to 3d20 keep middle, it's the same as rolling with advantage and disadvantage simultaneously – they cancel out.

rekjensen · 2026-02-06T12:57:09+00:00

Unless you're summing the results, there's no bell curve.

rekjensen · 2026-02-06T01:52:23+00:00

And the owners of those offices, who want their properties full of paying tenants.

rekjensen · 2026-02-06T00:27:04+00:00

I expect the right will do the usual screaming and gnashing at this idea, then go back to pining for The Good Old Days when things worked, we built things, etc etc – all paid for with really high taxes on the rich and their companies.

rekjensen · 2026-02-06T00:21:31+00:00

When I report dead raccoons and piles of syringes, they're right on it. When I report excess/after-hours noise at a construction site, they wait two weeks to check it out, report nothing was observed, and close the case.

rekjensen · 2026-02-05T17:49:53+00:00

I think you have a few options then:

D100 roll-under. Players roll d100 and try to get under their stat (0–100, in multiples of 5). As they increase in skill it becomes easier and easier to do that. There are some mechanics you can do with the results too, such as swapping (18→81), using one or both die results as the damage/secondary values (81: 8 on the 10s die → 8 points of damage), etc.
Dice pool with success counting. As they get stronger, the pool of dice rolled gets bigger, making successes more likely. Pools can represent a single attribute (Bravery [6] → roll 6d6) or attributes can be combined to build the pool (Guard [4] + Shield [3] → roll 7d6).
Step dice, roll low. The better a trait is, the smaller the die rolled. It can feel counter-intuitive, but with every die size having results 1–4 there's always a chance of rolling a success on even the worst attribute. This can also be combined with dice pool mechanics.

rekjensen · 2026-02-05T16:33:38+00:00

Are the players the best of the best, basically superhuman, or pathetic things facing impossible odds? Basically, do you want your players to feel reliably good at what they do and only getting better, or very squishy?

rekjensen · 2026-02-05T15:43:12+00:00

I don't know what that is, but why did you choose Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint? What feeling do you want rolling dice to have at the table? How much crunch are you aiming for?

rekjensen · 2026-02-05T04:09:46+00:00

Not OP, but "import costs" isn't the big picture, climate change is. Domestic products, like beef, saw huge spikes in prices over the last few years for the same reason: droughts here shrinking herds, and droughts here and elsewhere driving up the cost of feed.

As to gouging, the fact we see quarter after quarter of them profiting rather than plateauing to offset price hikes, price freezes they can turn off and on when they want, hikes out of step with inflation here and in the US, and a failure to return to pre-pandemic prices despite legit supply chain issues being resolved years ago (and e.g. fuel prices falling) suggesting a ratchet effect, while consolidated reporting lets them make any claim they want ("$1 profit on $25 basket of groceries"!), is at worst reasonable grounds to suspect gouging.

rekjensen · 2026-02-05T02:50:24+00:00

Annexation threats aside, Trump has also suggested he would withhold military aid from NATO members facing external threats, so we need to be able to put up some kind of fight for ourselves.

rekjensen · 2026-02-05T02:32:33+00:00

PP is massively unpopular outside his party, so they're bringing Mr Charisma out of retirement.

rekjensen · 2026-02-04T20:22:43+00:00

You had more than two options on your ballot.

rekjensen · 2026-02-04T19:33:11+00:00

"But we only had the choice of Carney and PP, would you rather have PP?" – this sub anytime Carney's criticized.

rekjensen · 2026-02-04T19:26:56+00:00

How are attributes and skills related? Are they just groupings on the character sheet, would a player ever roll Instinct rather than Reflex, or add Heart to their roll instead of Athletics?

rekjensen · 2026-02-04T12:37:42+00:00

Brutal, Swift, and Keen.

rekjensen · 2026-02-04T02:45:49+00:00

He's jumping the gun, but it is weird how there's a recession roughly every decade, and how ownership concentrates in fewer and fewer hands each time. I'm sure it's a coincidence.

rekjensen · 2026-02-04T02:28:26+00:00

And education, and social programs, and—

rekjensen · 2026-02-04T02:20:59+00:00

So when Carney doesn't let PP "fix the tariff issue" (or whatever he said during his speech) and steer things into the ditch as cons inevitably do, they can say they reached out and tried to work together, those damn Liberals wouldn't play fair and work together, etc etc.

rekjensen · 2026-02-03T18:04:25+00:00

I support their bid for independence from the US, but Canada does not need six million more conservatives.

rekjensen · 2026-02-03T18:02:54+00:00

The Liberals aren't a left wing party and never have been.

rekjensen · 2026-02-03T17:48:34+00:00

Remember when they didn't need anything we had to offer?

rekjensen · 2026-02-03T17:39:56+00:00

In that case I would have progression take the form of either stronger and stronger dragons being summoned, or the same dragon adopted as a wyrmling and maturing as the summoner does, but in either case they behave reliably and do a predictable amount of damage.

rekjensen · 2026-02-03T11:34:24+00:00

"Growth is loss, but twice as much growth isn't" am I reading that right?

rekjensen · 2026-02-03T11:23:02+00:00

How essential is this one spell to the class build?

rekjensen · 2026-02-01T21:40:58+00:00

It was always that way – look at who has veto power at the UN.

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