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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5305543" data-attributes="member: 82106">They are still different tables. I believe they are also reproduced in one other place in the DMG, but I may be misremembering. It HAPPENS that the two tables WERE the same, but taking the errata at face value they did NOT change the one on page 42. They may have intended that, but maybe not. Or maybe there will be a different update to that table. Honestly the old table really kind of makes more sense for damage from stunts. The new table really doesn't have sufficient range of possible values since only 2 numbers exist per level. Most stunts should be doing more damage than EITHER of those numbers. At least the more significant ones should. It seems to me that really the main points of the new table were to increase DCs at high levels where they often became trivial and to make the distinction between easy, medium, and hard more useful. The old easy DCs were really a bit low and not terribly useful, which meant the table really ended up being 2 usable values per level range. The new table lets you use medium DCs most of the time instead of often needing to resort to hard ones. It's a nice tweak but really I think the effect on actual SCs being used in play will not be that great.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 5305543, member: 82106"] They are still different tables. I believe they are also reproduced in one other place in the DMG, but I may be misremembering. It HAPPENS that the two tables WERE the same, but taking the errata at face value they did NOT change the one on page 42. They may have intended that, but maybe not. Or maybe there will be a different update to that table. Honestly the old table really kind of makes more sense for damage from stunts. The new table really doesn't have sufficient range of possible values since only 2 numbers exist per level. Most stunts should be doing more damage than EITHER of those numbers. At least the more significant ones should. It seems to me that really the main points of the new table were to increase DCs at high levels where they often became trivial and to make the distinction between easy, medium, and hard more useful. The old easy DCs were really a bit low and not terribly useful, which meant the table really ended up being 2 usable values per level range. The new table lets you use medium DCs most of the time instead of often needing to resort to hard ones. It's a nice tweak but really I think the effect on actual SCs being used in play will not be that great. [/QUOTE]

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