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The entire presumption that "if you portray something evil in your work of creative fiction, and don't issue a disclaimer about how you...

By deciding how many, and what kind of, and the difficulty of, obstacles exist between the PCs and their goal, you become a participant...

I agree with this. Skill challenges and similar mechanics are just a way of applying slightly more structure to regular play in order to...

You don't stop running the game because you are in a skill challenge. The individual actions/roll still change the situation state...

And another possibility - that I'm used to from 4e D&D and Burning Wheel - is that the player has to tell us what their PC is saying in...

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...

Re: D&D 4E Skill Challenges I've said this elsewhere, but I ran them very differently when I was running 4E. Instead of X successes...

I see nothing about fudging that has anything to do with "respecting the players".

The real value of stoping the world when you are making adjustments is that if you make a habit out of that, the players will recognise...

I have a radical suggestion for that situation: Speak up! Point out that you messed up royal, you now realise that this encounter...

I mostly see this particular fudging example as more evidence that critical hits are a bad general mechanic that is specifically...

If a character puts themselves between a charging boss and another character even if there is a chance that the boss’ attack will kill...

There is no "shorter path". The idea of a skill challenge is to establish a degree of "weight" to the attempt to achieve some overall...

But, it isn't necessarily specifically related to a map. The players need to succeed at 6 actions that would plausibly aid them in...

The post is about how latent scenes are established, and how latent scenes become "activated"/"triggered" and hence actual episodes of...