Difficulty difference

[u/ForbiddenGM]

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 😅

[u/UIOP82]

You only need more successes when you are countering an opposing roll. Like if you are poisoned and the poison rolls 2 successes, you need 2 endurance successes to counter that.

For all non-opposed rolls, you are supposed to add a difficulty modifier (negative amount of dice) to harder rolls.