| skill challenge set up
Just wondering how other dm's set up their skill challenges. Do you come out and tell your players that it is indeed a skill challenge? Do you give them hints, or do you let them figure it out for themselves?
I threw some high lvl npc's in the path of my players and it was supposed to be a SC but it didnt go well and my players decided that they could take them. Needless to say it went bad for them and i had to intervene with a hunting party showing up to chase off the higher level npc's.
I dont want to cheese it up by saying "this is a SC btw" but at the same time how do I let them know they might not wanna fight everything they come across. | 
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