| Task Difficulty | DC | - |
|---|---|---|
| Trivial | 5 | |
| Easy | 10 | |
| Moderate | 15 | |
| Hard | 20 | |
| Very Hard | 25 | |
| Nearly Impossible | 30 |
Any attempt to lift, push, pull, or break something, to force your body through a space, or to otherwise apply brute force to a situation
- You attempt to climb a sheer or slippery cliff, avoid hazards while scaling a wall, or cling to a surface while something is trying to knock you off.
- You try to jump an unusually long distance or pull off a stunt midjump.
- You struggle to swim or stay afloat in treacherous currents, storm-tossed waves, or areas of thick seaweed. Or another creature tries to push or pull you underwater or otherwise interfere with your swimming.
Any attempt to move nimbly, quickly, or quietly, or to keep from falling on tricky footing.
- covers your attempt to stay on your feet in a tricky situation, such as when you're trying to run across a sheet of ice, balance on a tightrope, or stay upright on a rocking ship's deck.
- An act of legerdemain or manual trickery, such as planting something on someone else or concealing an object on your person
- To conceal yourself from enemies, slink past guards, slip away without being noticed
You need to draw on logic, education, memory, or deductive reasoning.
- Your ability to recall lore about spells, magic items, eldritch symbols, magical traditions, the planes of existence, and the inhabitants of those planes.
- Your ability to recall lore about historical events, legendary people, ancient kingdoms, past disputes, recent wars, and lost civilizations.
- You might deduce the location of a hidden object, discern from the appearance of a wound what kind of weapon dealt it, or determine the weakest point in a tunnel that could cause it to collapse.
- Your ability to recall lore about terrain, plants and animals, the weather, and natural cycles.
- Your ability to recall lore about deities, rites and prayers, religious hierarchies, holy symbols, and the practices of secret cults.
An effort to read body language, understand someone's feelings, notice things about the environment, or care for an injured person. Get a gut feeling about what course of action to follow
- whether you can calm down a domesticated animal, keep a mount from getting spooked, or intuit an animal's intentions.
- whether you can determine the true intentions of a creature, such as when searching out a lie or predicting someone's next move.
- Lets you try to stabilize a dying companion or diagnose an illness.
- lets you spot, hear, or otherwise detect the presence of something. It measures your general awareness of your surroundings and the keenness of your senses.
- To follow tracks, hunt wild game, guide your group through frozen wastelands, identify signs that owlbears live nearby, predict the weather, or avoid quicksand and other natural hazards.
When you try to influence or entertain others, when you try to make an impression or tell a convincing lie, or when you are navigating a tricky social situation.
- Whether you can convincingly hide the truth, either verbally or through your actions.
- When you attempt to influence someone through overt threats, hostile actions, and physical violence
- Determines how well you can delight an audience with music, dance, acting, storytelling, or some other form of entertainment.
- You attempt to influence someone or a group of people with tact, social graces, or good nature