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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Reynard" data-source="post: 7481098" data-attributes="member: 467">So I am going to back-pedal a little bit. Or, rather, revise my perspective in the face of new evidence.I just sat down and reread the Running The Game chapter, particularly the "Difficulty Class" section.  Most everyone in this thread that is not me is right: in 5e it is explicitly the job of the DM to set DCs based on his or her own judgement and experience. Moreover, having time to peruse the PHB section on Ability scores confirms that *no* skills provide a set of benchmark DCs.It's funny because it has been a while (6 months) since I ran 5e, and even longer since I really read the books (I run on FG usually). Moreover, I just spent a few weeks (since it was released, anyway) reading and evaluating the Pathfinder 2E Playtest -- which sort of brought the idea of having tons of benchmark DCs back to the forefront of my mind. Before this break in running 5E I had been doing so pretty much since it came out. I guess I just kind of "forgot" that the 5E style was much closer to what we used to do in BECMI (which is a positive).There you have it: an opinion on the internet changed. Thank you all for the good discussion.</blockquote>