{"id":43,"date":"2008-07-21T09:37:52","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T09:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=43"},"modified":"2008-07-21T09:37:52","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T09:37:52","slug":"patch-41-out-for-dnd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2008\/07\/patch-41-out-for-dnd\/","title":{"rendered":"Patch 4.1 out for DnD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, not a patch, but people make the DnD = MMORPG comparison so much, I figured one more tired joke wouldn&#8217;t hurt.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wizards.com\/default.asp?x=dnd\/updates\">Actually, it&#8217;s errata and updates for all three books<\/a>, enough that I hope they correct this stuff in a second printing of the 4.0 rules.<br \/>\nThey has completely overhauled the skill challenge system in the DMG errata. All skill challenges now end with 3 failures regardless of complexity, so Complexity 5 challenges are going to be very difficult. However, they also dropped the difficulty of all skill checks by 5 (which is something I was already doing, based on the number crunching geniuses at Story-Games&#8230; you know, they don&#8217;t right many crunchy games, but those guys grok dice probabilities.<br \/>\nAnyway: all Easy skill checks are now difficulty 5 instead of 10. Moderate skill checks are now DC 10 instead of 15, and Hard checks are now DC 15 instead of 20. This still scales up with level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, not a patch, but people make the DnD = MMORPG comparison so much, I figured one more tired joke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-d20","category-links-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}