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<blockquote data-quote="iserith" data-source="post: 8141076" data-attributes="member: 97077"><p>To some extent, a static DC may devalue the player's approach to a goal which could lead to the player caring less about what they describe. In a game where the expectation is the DM is setting a DC based on what the player describes the character as doing (when there's a roll at all), some variation in the DC based on the DM's assessment of the efficacy of the approach relative to the goal incentivizes the players to really think about the game world and engage with the environment in effective ways. The smart play is to try to remove the uncertainty of the outcome of the task and/or the meaningful consequence for failure since leaving your fate to a d20 is not very wise. If pretty much anything I say is going to result in a DC 16 (again, when there's a roll at all), then I'm not incentivized to really give it a lot of thought. The DM using advantage and disadvantage would help with this, but being flexible on DCs plus using advantage and disadvantage is probably better.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="iserith, post: 8141076, member: 97077"] To some extent, a static DC may devalue the player's approach to a goal which could lead to the player caring less about what they describe. In a game where the expectation is the DM is setting a DC based on what the player describes the character as doing (when there's a roll at all), some variation in the DC based on the DM's assessment of the efficacy of the approach relative to the goal incentivizes the players to really think about the game world and engage with the environment in effective ways. The smart play is to try to remove the uncertainty of the outcome of the task and/or the meaningful consequence for failure since leaving your fate to a d20 is not very wise. If pretty much anything I say is going to result in a DC 16 (again, when there's a roll at all), then I'm not incentivized to really give it a lot of thought. The DM using advantage and disadvantage would help with this, but being flexible on DCs plus using advantage and disadvantage is probably better. [/QUOTE]

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