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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8274509" data-attributes="member: 93670">IME the DC being announced ahead of time is very much not the norm.  Even "It's going to be hard" or whatever is not the norm.   What was common back in the 3.x days is for a gm to go down the relevant list of bonus types & specific things in the <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/giving-an-ad-d-feel-to-5e.679228/post-8241363" target="_blank">bonus types/gms best friend</a> relevant to a roll so a player could make some informed choices or maybestep back a bit so they can try to influence some of those things. That kind of behavior happens in fate as well where a gm might list off draw attention to or even just hint at the various aspects that are  in play to potentially complicate a roll where they also basically added +2/-2 to the DC or did similar depending on the version.</blockquote>