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Message: <blockquote data-quote="3catcircus" data-source="post: 3797882" data-attributes="member: 16077">I guess I didn't articulate it as well as I thought...As was mentioned by Twowolves, my inspiration was the TW:2K's flat d20 "roll under," where the standard task was "Difficult" and the DC was equal to your skill level.So - in that system, with abilities ranging from (IIRC) 1-10, a person might have a Jump skill of 8 (Str 5 + 3 ranks in the skill) and would have to roll under an 8 on d20 to succeed at a Difficult task.  To succeed at an "Average" task, he'd have to roll under 16.What I am advocating is an inverse type of d20 + skill "roll over."  Str 18 (+4 modifier) and 6 ranks in Jump would still net you 10 total ranks in Jump, for example.What I didn't articulate was that a task that someone with a skill of 5 would consider a "Difficult" task would be an "Easy" task for someone with a skill of 10.So:  for someone with 6 ranks in Jump, jumping 5 feet straight up might be a "Difficult" task requiring you to beat a 10 by rolling at least a 2 (DC = Skill level of 10, and unless you roll a 1, you should succeed).  For someone with 10 ranks in Jump, jumping 5 feet straight up might be an "average" task requiring you to beat a 7 (DC = Skill level of 14/2), while jumping 10 feet straight up might be considered "Difficult," requiring you to beat a 14.I think this more closely mimics real-life - e.g. running a 4 minute mile is gonna be "impossible" for me, might be "difficult" for a college baseball player, and might be "easy" for a world-record holder of the fastest mile (which is, btw, 3:43.13, set by Morocco's Hicham El Guerrouj on 7 July 1999 in Rome...)Don't know if it is worth the trouble, but *anything* has to be better than the arbitrary static DCs set for skills, especially with the woefully inadequate number of examples that currently exist in the 3.5 PHB.</blockquote>

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