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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kerrick" data-source="post: 4573796" data-attributes="member: 4722">I'll agree with the second part of that - players tend to forget house rules.I want a) to put some kind of a cap on the scaling of DCs; and b) make skills more meaningful over a longer period of play. In short, I want to hew more closely to the table in the PHB. Yes, I know it's kind of arbitrary; I've acknowledged from the beginning that this was a radical idea, and the negative responses in this thread have just reinforced that. But, I feel that putting a set of guidelines in the book and then promptly ignoring them is blatantly stupid, and I think that having to scale the DCs to the skills, instead of the skills to the DCs, is equally dumb. I don't know if you've ever played Oblivion, but let's draw an analogy here. In Oblivion, all the enemies scale to your level - wherever you go, they'll always be around your level to provide a challenge. This leads to absurdities like bandits in glass and daedric armor, and is very unpopular among Oblivion gamers (I know this because I spend a lot of time on the Bethesda mod forums). There are a couple mods that eliminate the scaling - enemies are NOT level-dependent, but location-dependent. So, for example, a mine near one of the cities has low-level bandits in it, but a cave far from civilization has some really nasty, kick-ass beasties that'll wipe the floor with anything less than a L25 character. The monsters scale a little, but they hit a cap and don't advance any further - those bandits might scale up to L10; if you go there at L20, you'll run right through them. These mods are extremely popular because they use a logical set of guidelines - no bandits in daedric armor, for example - and it vastly improved immersion and suspension of disbelief.</blockquote>

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