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Paid Early Access: DCs in 5e
🕑 Added 2024-01-22 19:37:30 +0000 UTCHowdy paid subscribers! You get early access to the first installment of my articles on DCs in 5e and why they don't square with the game's math. Enjoy!
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David Johnson
Very cool. Hadn’t thought about how the curve skews by proficiency/competence. I’ve wondered about the ordering of skills on the 5e character sheet. The existing alphabetical ordering makes sense for obvious reasons. But there are moments where my impulse was to re-order them by ability. As I am ‘transferring’ the bonus from each ability to the associated skills, one has to hunt a bit. I wonder if there were internal discussions about the merits of these two possible offerings. Also love the function call analogy. It somewhat resembles polymorphism, where each skill has an inheritance relationship with its parent class/ability. Good stuff Mike! Love the behind the curtain look!!
Marshall
Okay, this does make more sense than starting at "very easy". Thank you for that writeup.
