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<blockquote data-quote="Trickstergod" data-source="post: 4457538" data-attributes="member: 10825">Not generally, no. If it's a set DC the players are more than welcome to look it up in the book and I'll just let them know if there are extenuating circumstances that may make the DC different than what it would normally be. Otherwise, I just describe it in terms of difficulty or just describe it period and let the players figure it out from there. It's not like people can gauge how difficult something is beyond &quot;I almost definitely can do that,&quot; &quot;I probably can do that,&quot; &quot;I might be able to do that,&quot; &quot;I probably can't do that,&quot; or &quot;I almost definitely can't do that.&quot; So players don't get any better of an indicator than that. The only time I usually tell the players the DC is after they've been doing the same thing for a while - for example, I might tell them the opponent's AC on round 3 of a fight. I also usually tell them the difficulty of a save DC after they make the roll, so if the same effect comes up again, they'll know it then. Otherwise, though? No. There's no reason for the characters to have any idea of the exact target number and how they statistically might fare against it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Trickstergod, post: 4457538, member: 10825"] Not generally, no. If it's a set DC the players are more than welcome to look it up in the book and I'll just let them know if there are extenuating circumstances that may make the DC different than what it would normally be. Otherwise, I just describe it in terms of difficulty or just describe it period and let the players figure it out from there. It's not like people can gauge how difficult something is beyond "I almost definitely can do that," "I probably can do that," "I might be able to do that," "I probably can't do that," or "I almost definitely can't do that." So players don't get any better of an indicator than that. The only time I usually tell the players the DC is after they've been doing the same thing for a while - for example, I might tell them the opponent's AC on round 3 of a fight. I also usually tell them the difficulty of a save DC after they make the roll, so if the same effect comes up again, they'll know it then. Otherwise, though? No. There's no reason for the characters to have any idea of the exact target number and how they statistically might fare against it. [/QUOTE]

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