The DC for uprooting trees?

[Ravingdork]

What do you think the Strength check DC is to uproot a small tree? Furthermore, how long do you think it would take provided a successful check? A move action maybe?

I have a huge eidolon with a high strength score and the Throw Anything feat.

[Tom Baumbach]

Ravingdork wrote:

What do you think the Strength check DC is to uproot a small tree? Furthermore, how long do you think it would take provided a successful check? A move action maybe?

I have a huge eidolon with a high strength score and the Throw Anything feat.

I'd say standard action. Off the cuff DCs:

Trunk Diameter (Inches) = Uproot DC
>3" = DC 20
3-5" = DC 25
6-8" = DC 35
9-12" = DC 50

Modifiers:
Tree is decaying/rotting, DC -5
Root system compromised, DC -10
Uproot as Move action, DC +5

[Thazar]

I would put it at a break DC and require a full round action. Set the DC for a tree of your size at 50 and lower it by 10 for every size below you. (50 is the DC to break through a hewn stone wall.) I would allow changing the DC by +5 to lower it to a standard action and +10 to put it at a move action. So a small sized tree by a huge creature would have a DC of 25 as a standard action. But this is all subject to DM approval for sure. :)

[Garden Tool]

Agree - treat it like a Break DC (which makes it a standard action, IIRC).

[Kierato]

Strength checks are typically full round actions. Tom baumbach's DCs sound about right.

[Blake Duffey]

Kierato wrote:

Tom baumbach's DCs sound about right.

Except the first line, which probably should read

< 3" = DC 20

:)