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The above is very close to the standard Narrativist model for situational play but I want to emphasises a few things. One big...

In the very first line of your OP you go much further than identifying a fairly well known method, you say most play defaults on an...

Given that you said you meant literal map and key, whole tread is rather weird, given that most roleplaying do not involve such. Instead...

Right--and the skill challenge mechanic is broken (for certain preferences) because it decouples resolution from the fiction...

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

Thoughtfully considering everyone's comments. Regarding the arbitrariness of clocks: The table was introduced to their 1st countdown...

This isn't an objective discussion. Map and key is not objectively inferior to not map and key.

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...