Rystil Arden
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None of the examples had Aid Another but some of them did have those examples of Easy DCs Aiding. Based on the text you mentioned, the only possible conclusion I can draw is that the aforementioned aid another on a skill challenge and the +2/-2 roles given in certain challenges are one in the same. In other words--making an Easy DC to give a +2 or a -2 is the Skill Challenge equivalent of aiding another (and what's more, the wording is such that you can never actually get more than +2 from it). If this is correct, then that does fix the problem of the wildly fluctuating Aid Another possibilities (since it can now contribute either nothing or +2 instead of a scale going from nothing all the way to +8), but it doesn't fix the DCs-too-hard problem.Spatula said:You can definitely use aid another. The DMG specifically mentions it, but seems to imply that using it is a feature of certain challenges (which it then doesn't provide examples of, so who knows - that section is very vague). The other bit is that many of the skill challenge templates have as their only Easy check an aid another-like mechanic - except that an Easy DC will always be at least 10 (or, at least 15 by the RAW), and it looks like if you fail that check you give a penalty rather than a bonus. So why would you use that if you could just aid another, which is always DC 10 and has no penalty for failure? *shrug* Hard to say anything definite, one way or the other.