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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 6659764" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>I think the INTENT (you will have to judge the success of it mechanically) was to allow all PCs to be 'paragon tough' at level 12, so they'd have a chance of surviving the mountain blizzard. The Ranger will probably be better than that, and the specialist character really good. If there are hard DCs of level 12 that means the wizard MIGHT pass them, but only 25% of the time or maybe even only 10%. The regular ranger will pass them say 25-50% of the time, and the specialist ranger will pass them over 60% of the time, maybe up to 90% depending on exactly how min/maxed he is. </p><p></p><p>In 3e the wizard has no chance, he just dies, he's never going to pass a level 12 check in some skill he doesn't have that is based off a stat he probably doesn't care about. In 5e it SHOULD be roughly like 4e, except level is much less of a consideration. The level 1 and level 20 wizards both can maybe eek out survival with a lot of luck, etc. The level 20 specialist mountain ranger will of course just laugh at the challenge, but most everyone else will find it fairly difficult, again without much reference to level.</p><p></p><p>Each system is different, but in each its darn good to have that mountain ranger.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 6659764, member: 82106"] I think the INTENT (you will have to judge the success of it mechanically) was to allow all PCs to be 'paragon tough' at level 12, so they'd have a chance of surviving the mountain blizzard. The Ranger will probably be better than that, and the specialist character really good. If there are hard DCs of level 12 that means the wizard MIGHT pass them, but only 25% of the time or maybe even only 10%. The regular ranger will pass them say 25-50% of the time, and the specialist ranger will pass them over 60% of the time, maybe up to 90% depending on exactly how min/maxed he is. In 3e the wizard has no chance, he just dies, he's never going to pass a level 12 check in some skill he doesn't have that is based off a stat he probably doesn't care about. In 5e it SHOULD be roughly like 4e, except level is much less of a consideration. The level 1 and level 20 wizards both can maybe eek out survival with a lot of luck, etc. The level 20 specialist mountain ranger will of course just laugh at the challenge, but most everyone else will find it fairly difficult, again without much reference to level. Each system is different, but in each its darn good to have that mountain ranger. [/QUOTE]
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