Degrees of Success

There are some situations where an Oddity or Skill’s action will depend on the Degree of Success. To find the Degree of Success, subtract the successful roll from the Target Number. The difference is the Degree of Success.

Coming across a stray dog, you use your character’s “Animal Empathy” skill to assess its hostility. following the action process, The Simple Target Number is 4 your character has 2 points in animal empathy which gives her a modifier of +1 and 2d, the Skilled Target Number is 5. You roll a 2 and a 1 for a final roll of 3. Subtract 3 from 5 to find Your character’s Degree of Success: 5 - 3 = 2, which is enough for your character to know that the dog is happy, but has most likely lost its owner.

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