So I want to port this Unearthed Arcana house rule over to the new edition of dnd, and it seems to work out just fine with one single caveat; Player's Save DCs. Currently the DC is 8 + Proficiency Bonus + Attribute Modifier and the monster rolls against this. I was going to just have players roll their Spell Attack Modifier, but then I realized their save DC is figured from 8 instead of 10... how should I approach this? thanks a million!
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doctorhook
Legend
I started a similar topic a couple months ago. Hopefully the information there is some help to you. FWIW, I've been using this variant very successfully for a month now in my Lost Mine of Phandelver game.
I hope this helps!
I hope this helps!
volanin
Adventurer
Actually, it's not so hard.
It will be +12 across the board as you said, except for the Spell Save DC which will be +14. And, I also would really like to know the reasoning behind the base 8 for Spell Save DC instead of the usual base 10.
My take on it is the following: for spells you always add the proficiency modifier, which does not happen with AC, and they wanted to reduce this [initial] +2 bonus in order to homogenize things.
Remembering to add 14 when a spell attack is being rolled isn't too hard true. And if I happen to forget that I need to add 14 instead of 12 it sounds like it wouldn't break anything either. I'm not as much of a math nazi as I used to be, so long as it's fun and easy (and player facing)
