Difficulty

To determine the difficulty of a roll, here are some benchmarks; these are merely guidelines. An actual difficulty may vary anywhere from 1-20.

result	difficulty sample
20	Autonomic: breathe; if you can't succeed here, you're probably dead.
16	Trivial: cook Hamburger Helper; work a VCR; scrub a floor.
12	Basic: program a VCR; change a car tire; climb onto a roof.
10	Challenging: repair a car; leap from roof to roof; advanced computing.
8	Difficult: make a bomb w/cleaning supplies; build a car from a scrapyard.
6	Olympic-level: jump a Canyon on a motorcycle; crack a gov't database.
4	Legendary: cross Antarctica with few supplies; flip a car single-handedly.
2	Near-Impossible: run the 3-minute mile, build a better mouse trap.

The default difficulty for most rolls is 6.