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With Respect to the Door and Expectations....The REAL Reason 5e Can't Unite the Base
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<blockquote data-quote="Imaro" data-source="post: 5977728" data-attributes="member: 48965"><p>I'm confused here... each check in a skill challenge is binary... you pass or fail it. A skill challenge is binary... you pass or fail it. what exactly is the difference? </p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This argument would be so much more convincing if it was in fact supported by the examples, advice or almost anything else in the actual DMG... but it's not. Even posters such as pemerton, who seem to argue for a similar interpretation of SC's as yours above, readily admit the DMG does not really support their claims and that most of their style of running SC's is drawn from a library of other games such as HQ and BW. So what we have here are a group of players claiming SC's are and do a certain thing and then the very people who developed, designed and wrote examples seeming to, if not contradict them, not actively support their interpretation of what a SC is and how it should be run. That is the biggest problem I have with this argument, it's based on other roleplaying games as well as a ton of advice, assumptions, etc. that just aren't in the 4e DMG.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Imaro, post: 5977728, member: 48965"] I'm confused here... each check in a skill challenge is binary... you pass or fail it. A skill challenge is binary... you pass or fail it. what exactly is the difference? This argument would be so much more convincing if it was in fact supported by the examples, advice or almost anything else in the actual DMG... but it's not. Even posters such as pemerton, who seem to argue for a similar interpretation of SC's as yours above, readily admit the DMG does not really support their claims and that most of their style of running SC's is drawn from a library of other games such as HQ and BW. So what we have here are a group of players claiming SC's are and do a certain thing and then the very people who developed, designed and wrote examples seeming to, if not contradict them, not actively support their interpretation of what a SC is and how it should be run. That is the biggest problem I have with this argument, it's based on other roleplaying games as well as a ton of advice, assumptions, etc. that just aren't in the 4e DMG. [/QUOTE]
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