I need a DC chart.


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I'm the DM, and I pre-calculate loads of DC's in my material. But I encourage the party to try to break my campaign, and do what they want (as long as they work as a constructive team), so they ask me all sorts of weird stuff.

On of them even has a deep brown sphere ioun stone, and loves asking me or my co-DM how high he is above sea level when we're concentrating our hardest. It's quite funny.

Any ya'll got a quick reference chart for DC's for skills, knowledge, locks, doors, strengths, hardnesses etc...?

The back of the DM board is only of limited use, and I need something better. Digital is also good.


The GM's shield is really the only thing that has lots of precalculated DCs on it.

Anything else you're going to have to make yourself.

If it's that big a problem start making a word document with all the relevant sections.

Of course, then you might as well just sit with your browser open to d20pfsrd.com and search whenever the need arises.


hardness and breaking

skills, click on which you want

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Claxon wrote:
Of course, then you might as well just sit with your browser open to d20pfsrd.com and search whenever the need arises.

Pretty much how I do things.


d20pfsrd is great, but they have a bunch of third party stuff mixed in. This confused the party when I handed out a bunch of Ioun stones that were not present in PCGen, as they are not Paizo material.

I've made up a quick reference list already, but most of it is irrelevant. I want to find a tried a true quick lookup, while I iterate my own.


Actually, I think almost all ioun stone are from Paizo (at least the ones listed on d20pfsrd). But they do not all come from the core lineup of books. Several are from Occult Mysteries book or Seekers of Secrets book.

Just because it's not in PCGen doesn't mean it's not Paizo material. Most electronic system are not inclusive of all Paizo content. And the ones that are, aren't free (HeroLab). I love HeroLab, and they're pretty quick about adpating any content into the program, but its not free like PCGen.


Here's a general table of appropriate DCs for various APLs. It's fan-made, not official Paizo material, but it's good for when you want to ballpark what's a reasonable DC to assign to a skill roll at various levels.


Happy Camper's Character Sheet page 4 has some pages with Skill DCs that I've found useful.

You can find it here: http://adnddownloads.com/sheets.php

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