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Message: <blockquote data-quote="UngeheuerLich" data-source="post: 6114006" data-attributes="member: 59057">Yes: upping the DCs, because everyone in something, leads to an ever increasing comeptition... and limits player resources...In 3.5 I made skills useful by clearly telling my players, that it is not necesary to maximize in a skil and only being able to raise a skill more than one rank if it was used recently. I also encouraged al players to take 20 whenever there is no preasure.I usually used DCs in the range of 10 to 20.This way: a strong character always succeded in opening doors and a weak did never! (DC 21-24 for doors a weakling should not be able to open)So if you just be honest and don´t do things like increasing DCs just because, players will not feel the need to maximize i every skill. And only a scout e.g. will have maximized perception.And suddenly, every character class, even the poor fighter has enough skill ranks to be comepetent in several skills. (skill rank 5 is expert rank!)Min Maxing, or character optimization is killing the game. Raising what makes sense in game allows the DM to stay fair./rant over...For DnD next:I´d like a bit more granular system. And gaining a new skill instead of a universal skill die increase is a step into the right direction.What it lacks is the possibiity to specialize in a single skill without investing a feat. I could imagine:- advantage in a skill (conflicts with racial or class advantage in that skill)- roll a second skill die for that skill (like mastery)- increase the die more than one step of one skill.Actually I could imagine going as far as allowing 4 step ups per 4 levels and you can spread it over 4 skills or increase 2 skills by 2 steps.Maybe it would be even easier to have only d4 or d6 skill dice and add y other die each x levels. You can put them at different skills or a single one or so...</blockquote>

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