Tony Vargas
Legend
I'm generally very much on board with G&A, but, seriously, "I'm not a medieval healer, I have no idea. Slap some leeches on her? Sacrifice a chicken? Rub garlic on her feet? Feed her mercury? Look for a root or herb shaped like the part of her that hurts?"I’m not Hriston, but I suspect based on his comments that his DMimg style is similar to mine. If Bob the cleric told me he “treats Cher the barbarian for exhaustion,” I would say, “Ok, I’m hearing that your goal is to remove a level of exhaustion from Cher. What is your character doing to try and accomplish that goal?” Without that information, I can’t adequately determine if the approach has a chance of succeeding at the goal, a chance of failing, and a cost or consequence for failing, so I don’t know if a check is appropriate to resolve it, or what the appropriate ability, skill, or DC might be if it is.
I appreciate the OP, but there is a point that DMs are just going to judge success/failure or call for checks with whatever DC feels right.At some point someone would need to make a roll based on a DC. It's the basis for check system in 5e. I could write that down in my OP as DC10 to diagnose heat exhaustion and consider it investing time for no check needed. The only difference is fleshing out the activity.
It is very interesting from the perspective of 'how useful is this skill, anyway?' Because examples of the skill being called for in a published source is something we can count.
I'd love to see the same for more skills. (Already saw Arcana - no big shock, a lot more instances of that one.)