Skill Challenges - latest version of the rules?

[MerricB]

I don't know if it plays into this, but in essentials the Aid Another rules seem to have been changed so that the DC to aid another scales with level, and if you fail on an attempt to aid another you provide a penalty.

Yes, that change came along several months ago. Brilliant change, which is great at my table.

Cheers!

 

[TerraDave]

its sooo metagamey though. Wouldn't it have been easier to just have the DC scale...with the DC. ie skill DC -5, something like that.

 

[shmoo2]

its sooo metagamey though. Wouldn't it have been easier to just have the DC scale...with the DC. ie skill DC -5, something like that.

It makes sense if you view it as the DC scaling with the level of the PC being helped - It's naturally harder to provide meaningful aid to someone who is more of expert themselves.

 

[MerricB]

its sooo metagamey though. Wouldn't it have been easier to just have the DC scale...with the DC. ie skill DC -5, something like that.

One nice thing about how it works is that the chance of success is clear to the player; not possible if the DC of the challenge is hidden.

Cheers!