Skill Checks (For Discussion)

[Mythacri]

Number of Skills: Players have a number of skills from a list of 30 (pending). 10 skills related to each attribute between health, stamina, and mana.

Skill Check: Skills are performed by rolling a pool of d6's in an effort to roll a 'hit' (a 6). The more proficient a character is at a skill the more d6's they roll. Players always will succeed at what they are doing but incur penalties to their own characters when they fail a skill check.

Failing a Skill Check: Failing a skill check results in a player taking stress which causes detriments to other actions the character performs.

Succeeding a Skill Check: A player succeeds on a skill check by landing a 'hit' on their dice. The more hits the player gets, the greater the level of success they achieve.

[krbz999]

Generally, when requestion a skill check, the GM would have a rough table in mind to determine the benefits or negative consequences of the roll. This is a result of the number of 6s rolled; each 'tier' reaps the benefits of the previous one in addition.

Sixes Rolled	Result
1+	You did the thing and also this nice thing happened
3+	An even better thing (or previous thing but improved)
6+	A really excellent thing (or previous thing improved even further

[krbz999]

The list of skills, in which we are experimenting with having many specifically scoped skills, are divided into the categories 'Mind', 'Body', and 'Soul' (internal aliases: Live, Laugh, and Love). Some brainstormed ideas below:

Mind

• Ward Detection (for detecting traps and magical wards)
• Knowledge (Religion)
• Knowledge (History)
• Knowledge (Magic)
• Knowledge (Science)
• Knowledge (Tech)
• Find Path (for navigation, finding location, tracking someone)
• Reason / Deduce
• Research
• Examine

Body

• Drinking
• Heartiness (resisting elements)
• Dodging (possible duplicate here...)
• Trap Avoidance
• Sprinting
• Jump
• Lift
• Throw / Kick
• Climb
• Swim
• Pickpocket

Soul

• Menace (to intimidate)
• Persuade / Enthrall
• Mette (to steel one self)
• Avoid Enchantment
• Avoid Detection (sneaking)
• Understand / Insight
• Flirt
• Barter
• Bamboozle (lie)

[krbz999]

Even when rolling 10d6, the average number of 6s is something like 2-3.

It may be worth considering:

• A hit being 5+ (an average of 4 hits with 10d6).
• Using d4s.
• Using d8s and counting evens as hits.
• Rerolling 1s.
• Some other arbitrary measurement of success.

[krbz999]

Suggestion for the sheet layout.

[krbz999]

For now, I went with a formula of Xd6even, which rolls X six-sided dice, and counts those that rolled an even number. The X is equal to the level an actor has in the relevant skill.

[krbz999]

It might be interesting to consider some skill thresholds that unlock additional bonuses. Completely arbitrary example: 4 levels of 'Throw' means when you use the Throw skill, dice explode on a 6.