I would have thought the answer to that is obvious - because Elder Scrolls isn't a RPG, and so won't produce a shared fiction and permit engaging the fiction as part of the process of play.
If someone thinks that engaging the fiction in play is at odds with engaging the system, that makes me assume that the only system they are familiar with is AD&D-type combat (to hit vs AC, damage deducted from hp), which is a fiction-independent system.
In the description of the tiers of play (which is found in both the PHB and the DMG). And in the fiction associated with paragon paths and epic destinies.
5e doesn't have a DC-per-level chart. 4e does.
5e has a DC chart showing the DC for easy, moderate, difficult checks. It doesn't need a DC by level chart because they don't change based on the players level. A DC 15 check is a DC 15 check no matter if you are level 1 or level 15.
Yes, I started that discussion.You might have noticed that the people you are engaging with in this thread are emphasisng non-combat situations.
It’s not hard to judge at the table and evaluate a charcater, but how do you rate that on a chart?In my RPGing experience, it's never been too hard to note effectiveness in a variety of situations - roughly, the bonuses on the sheet for non-combat abilities, the availability of salient fiat abiliites (eg spells or magic item effects, in D&D), etc.
How do you know what games I am and have played?Given that you don't play a game where the system provides the best moments, this can only be empricial conjecture. I'm here to tell you it's false.
They can still "loot" older editions powers/abilities and turn them into 5e feats, subclass features, spells, or something else.
OTOH I definitely hated the power sources hard categorization. It's too nerdy, bordering OCD, and fundamentally redundant. But if you really like it, it's easy to add the concept to any edition without imposing it to everyone else.
I must admit that it often baffles me when I see complaints about Magic Users being able to "impact" the fiction with their spells what one expects a Fighter to do in a similar situation? If a Magic User casts Fly then does a Fighter get to literally pull themselves up by their boot straps Baron Munchausen style?
5e has a DC chart showing the DC for easy, moderate, difficult checks. It doesn't need a DC by level chart because they don't change based on the players level. A DC 15 check is a DC 15 check no matter if you are level 1 or level 15.
Perhaps you have mistaken for someone else. I was never arguing you couldn't do that in 4e. In fact I spent a lot of time on the WotC boards, and with my players, that you could do that.Those are fine action declarations. AD&D gives me zero advice on how to adjudicate them. 4e gives very clear advice on how to adjudicate them.
No and it shouldn't, because the DC is static. It does have the Typical DC's table. In fact Chapter 8 of the DMG, Running the Game, is full of good advice on how to adjudicate the type of actions I was talking about. There are descriptions of saving throws and ability checks and how to use them, the Typical DC table, how to use Ad/DisAd and Inspiration, and the Improvising Damage table (among other things). In fact, you can pretty much run a 5e game with this chapter and the Monster Stats by CR table from Chapter 9. If I understand how to apply checks and saves and I have the DC, Damage, and CR tables, I don't really need anything else. I can wing everything else, very similar to pg 42 in the 4e.5e doesn't have a DC-per-level chart. 4e does.
Here's a question: are champion fighters (clearly modelled on the classic AD&D figher) an option for those who don't want to play "complicated" characters or equally as capable as wizards and other casters of shapeing the flow of play? I find it hard to believe that the answer is both, given the significance of resource expenditure to shaping the flow of play in the standard D&D paradigm.
5e has a DC chart showing the DC for easy, moderate, difficult checks. It doesn't need a DC by level chart because they don't change based on the players level. A DC 15 check is a DC 15 check no matter if you are level 1 or level 15.