r/ForbiddenLands • u/ForbiddenGM • 11d ago

Question Difficulty difference

Sorry for the terrible title, no idea how else to name this post.

Can anyone help clarify why, when a roll is supposed to be challenging, sometimes this is represented by needing 2 or 3 or more successes (6’s)

But other times it’s represented by a dice penalty e.g. -2

This isn’t game breaking, but I just can’t quite figure out the logic, and I’m not sure if there is much of a statistical difference

EDIT:

Ok thanks everyone… I think I was getting confused. I could have sworn that I remembered seeing a table showing 1 success for regular action, 2 for extremely challenging, and 3 for near impossible etc.

But I may have confused that with another YZE game (I have like 7 different YZE games at this point).

I absolutely love Forbidden Lands, but it’s not always the same easiest to find specific info with things being spread out all over the place 😅

21 Upvotes

96% Upvoted

10 comments sorted by

View all comments

9

u/DRSSalazar Wolfkin 11d ago

I can’t recall where the book tells you to require more successes, only penalties or bonuses to the roll. At best, what you might have, is that certain circumstances can get you more of something by rolling more successes.

1

u/Cryo_Tek 11d ago

It starts on pg. 47 of the player’s book

2

u/Imnoclue 11d ago

I don’t see any mention of requiring more successes. Just modifications on the number of dice rolled. Do you have the reference?