The Lost City

Sure, I'll try

Rolling a d4 is a little bit of cheating, since you should be rolling 2d20 and trying to roll low, haha.

New system, force of habit. I saw D4 and rolled it!

Okay, so Cur's Personality trait is 8, plus you add his Expertise in Persuade, which is 0. So your target number is 8. So the 17 fails, but the 8 is a success. You needed 4 successes (D4, or Difficulty 4). How might you get 4 successes on 2d20? You can't, that is Cur can't.

Now if you had points in Persuade, that would give you a critical range. Of for Focus is 3 in a skill, for example, then any 3 or less you roll counts as two successes.

You can also get more dice, up to a maximum of 5d20. Giving the GM a "Doom" point gains you an extra d20 for each Doom so given. Spending accumulated Momentum gives you an extra d20 for each one spent.

Three successes. Command is Personality based, so your target is 9 (8 personally +1 Command). Further, you have a critical range of 1 (the +1 Focus in Command). So the 6 counts as 1 success, and the 1 counts as two, for a total of three.

When we add Cur's one success, as a team effort, you have reached the required 4-success difficulty.