Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
What goes around comes around. You declaring D&D as farcical in the absolute manner you are doing is just as bad. You're basically telling me that I can't tell what is or is not farcical, and that my game D&D game must be farcical if I play according to the rules. Spoiler, my game is not farcical because I don't use Three Stooges combat where everyone just whiffs into the air when they miss.Yeah me and a huge number of other people. Let's just blame everyone and pretend the mechanics are perfect lol.
No. That's flat out wrong. The average DC is 15. That's a moderate check. Someone with a dump stat has a -1 to the roll and no proficiency. People very rarely pick proficiency for skills where the stat has a penalty. I'll go low level and use a 16 and proficiency for the skilled individual.It happens so often it is absolutely farcical. It should happen one roll in fifty at most. In reality it happens about one roll in five.
So to hit that DC of 15, the dump stat fellow has to roll a 16+ He will make it 25% of the time. The skilled fellow is going to make that roll on a 10 or higher. He succeeds 55% of the time. The dump stat guy isn't going to be succeeding while the skilled guy is failing 20% of the time. It's just not going to happen. And the difference becomes even more pronounced if the DC is 20 or at higher levels when the skilled guy will have more proficiency and maybe higher stats.