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Personally, I prefer static DCs as framed by the original post, as it seems like everyone else does. I do think though that scaling DCs...

I’ve bought 20 or 30 flip mats over the years. I’ve never gotten a digital file with them, but then I mainly grabbed them off Amazon and...

Good point there. I think it's interesting to consider when TTRPG rules tell you what you can do and when they tell you what you can't do.

I think DCs should correspond to actual difficulties, but the game should also have guidelines about what sort of DCs correspond to...

Ultimately, this is 5e in a nutshell. This edition encourages the DM to make a determination of Yes/No based on what the PC brings to...

Honestly, that's real life where events will follow as complex a set of factors as they must in order to resolve a question such as "who...

One of my favorite Discworld stories is when Cohen the Barbarian and the other geriatric heroes have one last ride

Most things in life are not random. Vaugn did not "roll a nat 1" -- she went out there when she was not up to the task. Yes, she was an...

I didn't see this explicitly called out on the flipmat subscriptions, but it's possible either it got omitted in the new store or I just...

I'm going to throw in a related concept - if you're an expert in something you should (almost) never fail. Some systems explicitly code...

Static. Even with monsters, I'm not a fan of the whole Diablo/BG3 scaling where 9th level town guards are walking around throwing out...

In your terms, always static. Otherwise, you're looking at a skill/DC increase treadmill. What's the point of increasing your skill if...

As a PF1 guy, I prefer a static bounded accuracy type system like 5E.

This came up in he Daggerheart General thread and I thought I would move it to its own thread for discussion. In games that havel...

Are you seeing a different Old School than I am? I thought it was about armor classes that required understanding negative numbers and...