Ydars
Explorer
I think the +5 to DCs, on the bottom of the table in the DMG, refers only to skill checks made outside of skill challenges, not to skill checks made as part of a skill challenge (I realise this is abstract, but I think this is how it was meant to be played).
However, this doesn't entirely fix the problem because then things become too easy, as Stalker's analysis shows.
Maybe building in some automatic failures is one way of handling this; like the attempt to intimidate the noble in the DMG example. Or perhaps what needs to happen is for the number of allowable failures to decrease slightly as the complexity increases.
However, this doesn't entirely fix the problem because then things become too easy, as Stalker's analysis shows.
Maybe building in some automatic failures is one way of handling this; like the attempt to intimidate the noble in the DMG example. Or perhaps what needs to happen is for the number of allowable failures to decrease slightly as the complexity increases.