Save DC Guidelines

[Gildedragon]

Anyone got guidelines for what would make easy, medium or difficult saving throw DCs per level?
I'm building some world stuff and would like to have a rule of thumb to compare them against. I remember seeing a chart with ranges of levels and DCs...

[Snowbluff]

Well, I don't know about a chart...

For saves, keep in mind a character with a good save gets 12 over 20 levels, and their bad save would be 6 over 20 levels. The saves for abilities are usually 1/2 HD + X, so someone with a good save will be more than half of the time to make the save, while the bad save will be failing more than half the time. Before modifiers, of course.

[Barsoom]

Take a look at some monsters of appropriate CR (with spell-like or supernatural abilities) and check out their save DCs. Go from there.

[ahenobarbi]

I have a thread with average & max saves per CR in my sig (and other stuff too).

EDIT: In case someone will be interested in this after I change my sig... [3.5] Average Monster Stats (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=172050)

[Treme]

http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Wizards%27_Handbook_by_Dictum_Mortuum_%28DnD_Optim ized_Character_Build%29/Spells


Spell saves by level. Several graphs included! :smallcool: