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<blockquote data-quote="Lyxen" data-source="post: 8422870" data-attributes="member: 7032025">Hmmm, I had read that section many times and I was surprised by your statement because I had never seen it formulated quite this way, although I agree that this corresponds to my perspective of the &quot;average joe&quot; calibration.However, it is not exactly what is said: &quot;Keep in mind that a character with a 10 in the associated ability and no proficiency will succeed at an easy task around 50 percent of the time. A moderate task requires a higher score or proficiency for success, whereas a hard task typically requires both. A big dose of luck with the d20 also doesn’t hurt.&quot;This just says that if you use the table above and allocated a DC of 10 to an easy task, a character with 10 in a stat and no proficiency will succeed around 50% of the time (which, by the way, is false, it's 55%) at an easy task.I think you can almost read it the other way around saying that &quot;average joe&quot; with 10 in his stats and no proficiency sets the DC at 10 when it is easy for him, and it's certainly the way I envision it, but I would be interested to see if it's everyone else's understanding as well...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lyxen, post: 8422870, member: 7032025"] Hmmm, I had read that section many times and I was surprised by your statement because I had never seen it formulated quite this way, although I agree that this corresponds to my perspective of the "average joe" calibration. However, it is not exactly what is said: "Keep in mind that a character with a 10 in the associated ability and no proficiency will succeed at an easy task around 50 percent of the time. A moderate task requires a higher score or proficiency for success, whereas a hard task typically requires both. A big dose of luck with the d20 also doesn’t hurt." This just says that if you use the table above and allocated a DC of 10 to an easy task, a character with 10 in a stat and no proficiency will succeed around 50% of the time (which, by the way, is false, it's 55%) at an easy task. I think you can almost read it the other way around saying that "average joe" with 10 in his stats and no proficiency sets the DC at 10 when it is easy for him, and it's certainly the way I envision it, but I would be interested to see if it's everyone else's understanding as well... [/QUOTE]

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