> > [Dave Bailey] At the risk of reversing the standard "rolling
> low is
> > good" you could divide a successful roll by 5 (round down) and
> treat that as
> > the augmentation value, teat a mastery as an automatic +4. e.g. a
> roll of 10
> > with a skill of 10w would give you +6.
>
> I considered the same idea, except using the degree of success/5.
> Therefore, roll 2 on an ability of 17 makes 15 success, +6 Edge/+3
> Bonus. So you still roll low. And for masteries, just treat each as
> another 20 success. However, I did think this a bit easy, as after 20
> ability you get an automatic augment. Maybe a 20 is always a fail,
> even with masteries?
>
[Dave Bailey] Seems to me the above would result in a lot more edges/bonuses which would cancel each other out anyway. If I read the situation properly then the problem is more to do with the price of failure which would be better handled by only giving out penalties for fumbles.
Dave.
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