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<blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 7044650" data-attributes="member: 6696971"><p>[MENTION=1282]darkbard[/MENTION] </p><p></p><p>- Milestones are achieved at the completion of 2 consecutive Encounters without taking an Extended Rest.</p><p> </p><p>- Skill Challenges are definitely Encounters.</p><p></p><p>- Hence, Skill Challenges count toward the Action Point refresh due to Milestone achievement.</p><p></p><p>[HR][/HR]</p><p></p><p>Neither DMG1 nor DMG 2 nor RC canvass options for the deployment of Action Points in Skill Challenges. I've read all of Dragon and Dungeon and I can't recall any such article in UA or anything. I also don't recall there being anything on any of the design/hacking articles. Now that doesn't mean there aren't any, it just means that I don't recall (but my recall is rather good so I'm pretty confident).</p><p></p><p>I know [MENTION=42582]pemerton[/MENTION] (and I believe [MENTION=27160]Balesir[/MENTION] may as well?) allows the deployment of APs for a myriad of effects; up front +2 (like a deployed SS), an interrupt to make an SS to add +2 or to cancel a failure.</p><p></p><p>I <em>think </em>that usage is a house rule or perhaps something pulled from a module (or again, an article I'm unaware of)? I neither run modules nor pick them apart/use them for inspiration so I'm not aware of the content therein. </p><p></p><p>While I don't use any AP Skill Challenge house rule. However, the Milestone Reward Cycle is still extremely coherent even if you don't use APs in SCs. This is because APs are meant to supplement the loss of Dailies, incentivizing the players to push on rather than turning back or attempting to make camp for a refresh. Dailies are meant to be deployed in Skill Challenges, earning <strong><em>at least</em></strong> 1 auto-success (DMG2 86). I universally give PCs 2 auto-successes for the savvy deployment of a Daily which is a thematic/mechanical match for the present fictional positioning of the unfolding situation. My players build toward a suite of Dailies for this and deploy them in SCs regularly. Further, as you know, my ratio of SCs to combat is probably 3:2. Consequently, there is nary a battle (unless it is the stray combat which is nested in a SC) where the players don't have APs refreshed. As a knock-on effect to this paradigm, while they have less aggregate Dailies for combat, they also never horde their APs for future use (combat is always assumed to have APs).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Manbearcat, post: 7044650, member: 6696971"] [MENTION=1282]darkbard[/MENTION] - Milestones are achieved at the completion of 2 consecutive Encounters without taking an Extended Rest. - Skill Challenges are definitely Encounters. - Hence, Skill Challenges count toward the Action Point refresh due to Milestone achievement. [HR][/HR] Neither DMG1 nor DMG 2 nor RC canvass options for the deployment of Action Points in Skill Challenges. I've read all of Dragon and Dungeon and I can't recall any such article in UA or anything. I also don't recall there being anything on any of the design/hacking articles. Now that doesn't mean there aren't any, it just means that I don't recall (but my recall is rather good so I'm pretty confident). I know [MENTION=42582]pemerton[/MENTION] (and I believe [MENTION=27160]Balesir[/MENTION] may as well?) allows the deployment of APs for a myriad of effects; up front +2 (like a deployed SS), an interrupt to make an SS to add +2 or to cancel a failure. I [I]think [/I]that usage is a house rule or perhaps something pulled from a module (or again, an article I'm unaware of)? I neither run modules nor pick them apart/use them for inspiration so I'm not aware of the content therein. While I don't use any AP Skill Challenge house rule. However, the Milestone Reward Cycle is still extremely coherent even if you don't use APs in SCs. This is because APs are meant to supplement the loss of Dailies, incentivizing the players to push on rather than turning back or attempting to make camp for a refresh. Dailies are meant to be deployed in Skill Challenges, earning [B][I]at least[/I][/B] 1 auto-success (DMG2 86). I universally give PCs 2 auto-successes for the savvy deployment of a Daily which is a thematic/mechanical match for the present fictional positioning of the unfolding situation. My players build toward a suite of Dailies for this and deploy them in SCs regularly. Further, as you know, my ratio of SCs to combat is probably 3:2. Consequently, there is nary a battle (unless it is the stray combat which is nested in a SC) where the players don't have APs refreshed. As a knock-on effect to this paradigm, while they have less aggregate Dailies for combat, they also never horde their APs for future use (combat is always assumed to have APs). [/QUOTE]
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