I like the concept, I guess I’m just confused at why a higher intelligence roll would mean a “lower intelligence” as in you don’t know what you’re looking at, but I guess it’s so that a lower intelligence roll is more potentially punishing?
The thought was that the higher your intelligence, the higher the chance you know what you’re seeing. So if you have a high intelligence of say 19, then you need to design the check such that it’s very likely you’ll “succeed” in recognizing it, so with a D20 that means rolling under 19 (a 90% chance). A lower intelligence would actually be a good thing in this case, someone with an intelligence of 2 only has a 5% chance of “succeeding” and rolling under a 2.
I like the concept, I guess I’m just confused at why a higher intelligence roll would mean a “lower intelligence” as in you don’t know what you’re looking at, but I guess it’s so that a lower intelligence roll is more potentially punishing?
The thought was that the higher your intelligence, the higher the chance you know what you’re seeing. So if you have a high intelligence of say 19, then you need to design the check such that it’s very likely you’ll “succeed” in recognizing it, so with a D20 that means rolling under 19 (a 90% chance). A lower intelligence would actually be a good thing in this case, someone with an intelligence of 2 only has a 5% chance of “succeeding” and rolling under a 2.
Oh that makes way more sense thank you.