Basics of Game Design

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world but are prevented from opening a few because special keys

are required. It is possible to tie in the diculty of locks to the level

of the lockpick skill or spell the character knows, so that a low-level

character is able to open only a few locks while a high-level charac-

ter can open any lock in the world. Likewise, if lockpicks are items

player collect, they can be given dierent levels, too, so that a Basic

Random

Result

Effect

1–70 Success

71–100 Failure

Lockpick Table

Note: Subtract 2 from random

result per Experience Level

Table 7.6. Here is a simple Lockpick Table. Note that two is subtracted from the

random results r ...