doomdragon6
Staff member
I follow the general rules of D&D and as such I feel like I give most traps and things fairly regular DC checks for their difficulty.
Thing is, my party-- who are leve 4, and by no means are min-maxers or anything like that, nor do they even have crazy magical items, have crazy-high rolls.
I can't hide ANYTHING from them. There's an elf druid that has a +15 to Perception, meaning she has a Passive Percep of 25-- which is enough to find damn near anything. If I make her roll for it, she gets 35 on average. Which is insane. I couldn't hide a speck of diamond at the bottom of a pile of dirt from that.
There's another person with Dungeoneering so high that they're able to, once a pressure plate has been found, guess exactly what it goes to and what might happen. Normally I'd be like "You're not sure" but when they get a dungeoneering roll of 30+, what am I supposed to do?
When it comes to stuff like Arcana, I understand and enjoy them rolling high-- I love that this person who has studied magic can identify lots of details about the magic around them.
But I cannot hide ANYTHING from the Perception girl. What can I do besides making the DC for mundane things incredibly high? Keep in mind, that would make it impossible for the not-Perception people to find anything, ever.
It's just frustrating to build really intricate trap rooms and have them walk in and she immediately goes, "I can see the very minute creases in the hatches that will open up, which are located there, there, and there, there's a hatch directly above us, and the pressure plates are located over there., which you two can teleport over, and then..." etc.
Seriously, how can I stop this beyond making DCs incredibly hard or blinding her character?
Thing is, my party-- who are leve 4, and by no means are min-maxers or anything like that, nor do they even have crazy magical items, have crazy-high rolls.
I can't hide ANYTHING from them. There's an elf druid that has a +15 to Perception, meaning she has a Passive Percep of 25-- which is enough to find damn near anything. If I make her roll for it, she gets 35 on average. Which is insane. I couldn't hide a speck of diamond at the bottom of a pile of dirt from that.
There's another person with Dungeoneering so high that they're able to, once a pressure plate has been found, guess exactly what it goes to and what might happen. Normally I'd be like "You're not sure" but when they get a dungeoneering roll of 30+, what am I supposed to do?
When it comes to stuff like Arcana, I understand and enjoy them rolling high-- I love that this person who has studied magic can identify lots of details about the magic around them.
But I cannot hide ANYTHING from the Perception girl. What can I do besides making the DC for mundane things incredibly high? Keep in mind, that would make it impossible for the not-Perception people to find anything, ever.
It's just frustrating to build really intricate trap rooms and have them walk in and she immediately goes, "I can see the very minute creases in the hatches that will open up, which are located there, there, and there, there's a hatch directly above us, and the pressure plates are located over there., which you two can teleport over, and then..." etc.
Seriously, how can I stop this beyond making DCs incredibly hard or blinding her character?