>Or look at brave. Imagine for a moment that a warrior has brave 17,
>and for some reason has a squirrel follower, also with brave 17.
>When facing a small alynx, you wouldn't even make the warrior role,
>brave skill or not, while the squirrel would�to face a cat is a brave
>action for a squirrel, but not for a human. Later, they need to try
>and walk across a rope strung between two towers, hundreds of feed in
>the air, with a cross breeze. The squirrel doesn't need to make a
>brave role at all, the warrior might, depending on how the narrator
>feels about the situation.
I disagree. In this example you are not comparing brave with brave, you are allowing one character to substitute a different skill for brave. Very different situation. In your first example, the warrior is using "Not scared of a little pussy cat" which you have decided that a human has at a high enough default level to push the roll into "No self respecting hero fails" category. That's your choice. In your second example, you are letting the squirrel use his "Agile Climber" ability instead of brave.
My statement stands : If you roll off the same ability, you have the same chance of victory, whether squirrel or human. Anything else is too complicated. Whether the GM allows you to roll other abilities instead is an entirely different matter.
Oh, and tackling an annoyed Alynx, even a small one, seems brave to me. There's a big tom cat round here that I wouldn't lay hands on - I like my skin the shape it is!
Cheers,
Graham
-- Graham Robinson graham_at_... Albion Software Engineering Ltd.
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