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I guess my interest here is that my play often gets described as map and key and while I can’t say it’s devoid of maps and keys they are...

It is from the DMG1. The challenges have set of primary skills, and there is no indication that the GM should prevent the players from...

But that's what skill challenge rules say, They have set of skills you can use and then set of secondary skills that might face higher...

Thank you for the explanation and example. This seems good to me; that the different approaches produce different outcomes and that...

Thanks. I don't have a detailed example but I can share the very brief one from the book. Obviously it's missing the context of the...

But the player knows that it is a skill challenge, and if athletics is their best skill they will probably want to roll it six times...

In the real world the courtesy title for the (non-lord) children of lords is "the honourable."

There was a long discussion about this in the giant D&D conservatism thread. Acausal complications might make the player vary of...

I have nothing against impossible dragon physiology, but the number 1 rule for dragons is that they should look cool, and this just...

I think that skill challenges were a noble failure. Plenty of games on the storygame side have some means of chaining together...

And if they do that, weird incentives arise. Many narrativist mechanics allow the player to affect things the character couldn't and...

You said characters are not in challenge. Then why are we using challenge mechanics? What does it represent? To me the point of...

A lot of narrativist mechanics are like this. The games have weird incentive structures that might disassociate the player decision...

You have to assume the point of the mechanic is not to try and succeed at the challenge. The goal is to see what happens as a result of...

Dragonborn equivalents (more like dragonborn/lizardfolk hybrids) in my setting Artra always have tails and they never have wings. Tails...