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<blockquote data-quote="EscherEnigma" data-source="post: 8042762" data-attributes="member: 6750014">If he's a PC, he's &quot;strange&quot; by default, so obviously the answer is &quot;yes, quite strange indeed.&quot;But to the spirit of the question... RAW, there is only a 5% difference in probability of success between similarly min-maxed elves and dwarves.&nbsp; And after a point, that difference goes away too.&nbsp; So however high you set the DC for &quot;skating down Oliphant trunks&quot;, the elf will only be 5% more likely to succeed then the dwarf.&nbsp; If you set the DC so high that the dwarf cannot succeed, then the elf only has a 5% chance to succeed at all.So as I said above, if this sort of shananigan is part of your narrative, the rules won't support you.&nbsp; The elf is only marginally more able to do it then the dwarf.The &quot;lore to rules correlation&quot; is better represented by NPCs, which are under the DM's thumb, and can be set to support any lore the DM wants to support.PCs, being exceptional, will always be able to trivially defy lore.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EscherEnigma, post: 8042762, member: 6750014"] If he's a PC, he's "strange" by default, so obviously the answer is "yes, quite strange indeed." But to the spirit of the question... RAW, there is only a 5% difference in probability of success between similarly min-maxed elves and dwarves. And after a point, that difference goes away too. So however high you set the DC for "skating down Oliphant trunks", the elf will only be 5% more likely to succeed then the dwarf. If you set the DC so high that the dwarf cannot succeed, then the elf only has a 5% chance to succeed at all. So as I said above, if this sort of shananigan is part of your narrative, the rules won't support you. The elf is only marginally more able to do it then the dwarf. The "lore to rules correlation" is better represented by NPCs, which are under the DM's thumb, and can be set to support any lore the DM wants to support. PCs, being exceptional, will always be able to trivially defy lore. [/QUOTE]

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