D&D 5E Medicine Checks

[neogod22]

To put it in a real would perspective, imagine 1 CP is equal to $1.00.

 

[Charlaquin]

To put it in a real would perspective, imagine 1 CP is equal to $1.00.

That’s a bit of an under-estimation. An unskilled laborer makes a silver a day, and a copper is a 10th of a silver. 10 dollars a day is far less than unskilled labor will make you, at least in America. Minimum wage varies by state, but $10 an hour is closer to the mark, if a bit lowballed. If you figure an 8 hour day, that’d put a silver at $80 and a copper at $8.

 

[Ashrym]

This is just my opinion, and it’s a bit of a controversial one, but if the player is thinking of what to try in terms of what their skills are and what those skills can do, they’re going about things backwards. They should thinking in terms of what they want to accomplish and what their character might do to try and achieve that goal. Let the DM worry about whether or not that task requires a check, and if so what kind.

That method does fit in with preplanned adventures. That's why the DC's are already listed in various campaign adventures. It's typical because no one follows the adventures though, lol.

I don't think DM's necessarily have a good guide on matching up the DC's either so guidelines help us too,

Magical healing usually isn't as available for common folk. The PHB prices goods and services in GP which may seem cheap until you realize that the currency most people deal in is SP. Then you realize how expensive things really are in the D&D Worlds.

It's not the common folk I'm worried about. NPC's have the skill already and commoners use it. PC's don't use it and because they don't use it they don't take, then they are even less likely to try and use it. Building into a more mainstream skill for PC's is where I want to go that that's the help I'm looking for.

 

[jgsugden]

I allow players to deduce biological abilities of a creature with a good medicine check. That makes it very desirable in my games.

 

[R_J_K75]

I don't think DM's necessarily have a good guide on matching up the DC's either so guidelines help us too,

Yea I think the DC system but seems rather random and arbitrary to me. I always have a hard time coming up with an appropriate DC.

 

[BlivetWidget]

I listed what I could find.

This is a brilliant idea. I'm going to do this for Arcana.

 

[neogod22]

That method does fit in with preplanned adventures. That's why the DC's are already listed in various campaign adventures. It's typical because no one follows the adventures though, lol.

I don't think DM's necessarily have a good guide on matching up the DC's either so guidelines help us too,



It's not the common folk I'm worried about. NPC's have the skill already and commoners use it. PC's don't use it and because they don't use it they don't take, then they are even less likely to try and use it. Building into a more mainstream skill for PC's is where I want to go that that's the help I'm looking for.

If they don't use it, they don't use it. That's judt how some groups roll. As a DM, you can always have a medicine check tied to the success of a healing spell.

 

[Ashrym]

If they don't use it, they don't use it. That's judt how some groups roll. As a DM, you can always have a medicine check tied to the success of a healing spell.

I'm not trying to force it's use. I'm trying to flesh it out so that it has similar appeal to other skills. Right now it's a situational information skill for examining bodies and a non-competitor for other healing aspects of the game.

Consider this a brainstorming exercise.

 

[neogod22]

That’s a bit of an under-estimation. An unskilled laborer makes a silver a day, and a copper is a 10th of a silver. 10 dollars a day is far less than unskilled labor will make you, at least in America. Minimum wage varies by state, but $10 an hour is closer to the mark, if a bit lowballed. If you figure an 8 hour day, that’d put a silver at $80 and a copper at $8.

But that's only in the US. In most 3rd world countries, $10/day is about right.
This is why they think everyone in America is rich.

 

[Charlaquin]

But that's only in the US. In most 3rd world countries, $10/day is about right.
This is why they think everyone in America is rich.

Sure, but the entire point of the analogy is to frame the buying power of fantasy currency in terms of our experience. I doubt any of us posting on ENworld live in 3rd world contries working for $10 a day.