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But players don’t do that without a progress clock? Well, if the module doesn’t expect this is possible, how did you know it was more...

So you're approaching non-SC skill checks the same way as you approach SC skill checks then? What it adds in principle is a...

It adds a determinate structure. I don't know, as a player, that the GM is going to be satisfied with 3 checks, or if he might decide to...

But look at my sneak past the defenses response, above. Where are the choices? I mean, yes, the players could choose very differently...

See, I don't understand this supposed 'flattening'. Lets say the SC you are suggesting is one that we ran for some characters. I would...

Yeah. 'I try to impress the zookeeper by telling him some animal facts I learned from my Hunt skill' 'I try to sneak up to the guards...

Other people have done the opposite, which is why I posted it. Well, the Oberoni fallacy is about fixing what's broken. Are you saying...

I don't know that I have any position on this. I can imagine how a scenario of that type might be structured as an SC, if that's what...

I am honestly completely mystified here. If 'hunt' is your best skill, then why would the existence or absence of a Skill Challenge...

Yeah, this is a whole other point. Nothing has been lost, if you were already assuming limitless GM power to say this or that, then they...

I'm not super clear how the SC tangent really relates to the OP, but: I don't understand how skill challenges, uniquely among all the...

Yes, of course. All of us who would use an SC are obviously such incompetent fools that we can't judge actions and appropriate...

Bah! You don't know how many is the 'right number' of checks either, so telling me that 12 or whatever the SC says is 'wrong' is just...

The main difference I see is that with the skill challenge, the number of successes and failures are set and known ahead of time. The...

And you're assuming that a party who deploys some far less effective methods are ever in line for success! Honestly, there's an answer...