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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 6258415" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>Not really. The DMG/DMG2 never say that. They say that appropriate DCs for characters of specific given levels are certain numbers. The DMG then also talks about how more challenging things are described, such as when it talks about the materials that doors are made out of. The understanding I got out of that was that for a level 1 PC when they're going to go do some stunt off page 42 that the environment they are in is "low level" and thus the chasm is only so wide, the rushing torrent so strong, the monster so tough, etc. Nothing in the rules ever suggests that a level 1 PC in 4e should be able to pass a Heal check to heal a terrible disease on a 15 just because he's 1st level and some high level guy needs a 30 to do the same thing. You will just run into a level 1 disease as a level 1 pc (or maybe you'll run into a level 5 disease and be in almost over your head). If the level 30 guy happens to run into said level 1 disease, he's going to just find it trivial and no DM will waste time on that. </p><p></p><p>Now, I have heard people claim 4e was written otherwise, but reading the actual DMG in particular and the skill section of PHB1 I don't see any suggestion this was meant to be the case.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 6258415, member: 82106"] Not really. The DMG/DMG2 never say that. They say that appropriate DCs for characters of specific given levels are certain numbers. The DMG then also talks about how more challenging things are described, such as when it talks about the materials that doors are made out of. The understanding I got out of that was that for a level 1 PC when they're going to go do some stunt off page 42 that the environment they are in is "low level" and thus the chasm is only so wide, the rushing torrent so strong, the monster so tough, etc. Nothing in the rules ever suggests that a level 1 PC in 4e should be able to pass a Heal check to heal a terrible disease on a 15 just because he's 1st level and some high level guy needs a 30 to do the same thing. You will just run into a level 1 disease as a level 1 pc (or maybe you'll run into a level 5 disease and be in almost over your head). If the level 30 guy happens to run into said level 1 disease, he's going to just find it trivial and no DM will waste time on that. Now, I have heard people claim 4e was written otherwise, but reading the actual DMG in particular and the skill section of PHB1 I don't see any suggestion this was meant to be the case. [/QUOTE]
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