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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8422746" data-attributes="member: 6779196">I agree with you, but I think DMs who come at setting DCs like you and I do would do better to conceptualize the question as “to who’s skill should the difficulty of a given DC be relative?”What I mean by that is, 5e treats DC 10 as easy, 15 as moderate, and 20 as hard, right? But easy/medium/hard to whom? To a character who specializes in a certain task, with help from other party members, “hard” might not be an especially accurate way to describe a DC20 check to perform that task. Yet 5e uses that term for it, so we can assume those DC categories are probably named relative to a character with a lesser degree of specialization than that. Who is it relative to then? And who ought it to be relative to?For the record, I believe the answer is that in 5e it’s relative to a 1st-4th level character with either a 14-17 in the relevant ability and no relevant proficiency, or a 10-13 in the relevant ability and a relevant proficiency, acting alone. And I also think that is exactly who it ought to be relative to in 5e. So I would vote checking the first and fourth box in the poll.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 8422746, member: 6779196"] I agree with you, but I think DMs who come at setting DCs like you and I do would do better to conceptualize the question as “to who’s skill should the difficulty of a given DC be relative?” What I mean by that is, 5e treats DC 10 as easy, 15 as moderate, and 20 as hard, right? But easy/medium/hard [I]to whom[/I]? To a character who specializes in a certain task, with help from other party members, “hard” might not be an especially accurate way to describe a DC20 check to perform that task. Yet 5e uses that term for it, so we can assume those DC categories are probably named relative to a character with a lesser degree of specialization than that. Who is it relative to then? And who ought it to be relative to? For the record, I believe the answer is that in 5e it’s relative to a 1st-4th level character with either a 14-17 in the relevant ability and no relevant proficiency, or a 10-13 in the relevant ability and a relevant proficiency, acting alone. And I also think that is exactly who it ought to be relative to in 5e. So I would vote checking the first and fourth box in the poll. [/QUOTE]

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