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It is not "hidden" it is just unknown to all participants, as we do not yet know what sort of actions the characters might take and how...

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...

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...

The notion that there is some finish line and progress bar eludes me. The constraints on the DMs narration are the fiction, including...

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...

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...

Because that's what narrativist mechanics do. They let player's directly manipulate the story in a way that only the GM normally can...

So I am not quite sure how literally I should understand "the map and key" in the OP. Because I don't think that this is literally how...

Which makes it very "mechanics first, fiction as colour." If the player invents something clever that should resolve the situation then...

The question might be why are you changing the fiction before, to what ends and why is it better to do it beforehand and then run the...

I didn't intend to intimate that there is anything wrong with you... one ought to as readily take what I wrote to imply that there is...

For a lot of people the HOW is every bit as or even more important than the event itself. For you it seems not to matter. For me it...

I did just this once, and it was the funniest thing ever. 9th-10th-ish level party are in a forest, on high alert for legitimate...

It's very possible. Some encounters are not avoidable or the players fail to avoid them, but need for whatever reason to get past. It...

3e has Do you cheat? The answer: The DM really can’t cheat. You’re the umpire, and what you say goes. As such, it’s certainly within...