Static Difficulty

this wasn’t a TN system but a die pool system, where difficulty wound up being the number you had to grab on your roll in order to succeed AND you could CHOOSE to ‘fail’ or ‘succeed at a cost’? I think we’re getting somewhere now.

OR EVEN

DIFFICULTY	TN	MASTERY	NOTES
EASY	2	-	Max for Inept
MODERATE	4	NOVICE	Max for Novice/Weak
TRICKY	6	APPRENTICE	Max for Apprentice/Average
CHALLENGING	8	JOURNEYMAN	Max for Journeyman / Strong
FOOLHARDY	10	ARTISAN	Max for Artisan / Mighty
ABSURD	12	MASTER	Achievable by Master / Supernal

BECAUSE if we do THIS then we can easily map the difficulty levels (6) to the ability mastery levels (6 including untrained)

WHAT IF

All you needed was the Botch number and you could multiply to get Sacrifice(x2), Success(x3), and Triumph(x4) numbers?

You still wouldn’t want to ask people to multiply in the middle of a fight, but it’d make a lot more sense than the seemingly arbitrary bands above, and you could shape the curves a bit (as well as give a GM a bit of leeway to set a DC fluidly - ie, “call it a base 8” would give you botch 8 sacrifice 16 success 24 triumph 32 - comfortably between Foolhardy and Absurd)

DIFFICULTY	BOTCH	LOSS	SACRIFICE	SUCCESS	TRIUMPH
EASY	-		4	6	-
MODERATE	3n		6	9	12n+
TRICKY	4n		8	12	16n+
CHALLENGING	5n		10	15	20n+
DIFFICULT	6n		12	18	24n+
FOOLHARDY	7n		14	21	28n+
ABSURD	9n		18	27	36n+
SUPERNATURAL	12n		24	36	48n+
DEIFIC	16n		32	48	64n+
IMMORTAL	21n		42	63	84n+

TABLE: CHALLENGE RESULTS