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Exactly! Right. Now, a valid criticism of a technique might be that it incites this kind of thing, but I don't think that is the case...

At a big standard level the DC for each check is the same, but some skills are considered primary, your first use is at the medium DC...

OK, but if a GM is lazy and unimaginative to the point of just describing some fiction that always lets you do one thing to solve every...

What examples were you thinking of? Because this isn't my experience.

I don't think I agree. The players are attempting to get their characters through the challenge successfully. They are simply operating...

What I'm saying is that 'Skill Challenge' is not a diegetic construct. Characters do not look around and say "boy, I'm in a skill...

I don't think this characterisation of narrativist games as relying on players being uninterested in a particular outcome is correct. I...

Well, lets not overemphasize that. I'll take the example of Dungeon World, since I am running it now. The players, before creating...

I don't even understand you. Why are you playing a game at all? I am playing one for the same reasons, because the structure of the game...

Yeah, if for some reason a challenge is entirely fictionally inappropriate, then there's no challenge! That could result from some PC...

Totally disagree. The situation is simply all fiction. It is just up to the GM to frame the situations as checks, or not in some cases...

And in which type of game would it NOT be true that this is a goal of the players', or at least a strategy! I don't send my wizard out...

Yeah, IaWA seems like a bit of a special case. Honestly it is a very different sort of game, there's really only a certain amount that...

So, there was discussion of In a Wicked Age and 'agendas' (best interests to use IaWA terminology). I think we then have some hybrid...

And reactions. The reactions bit is vital for solo play.