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For what it’s worth, the specific implementation here seems far superior to how I understand 4e skill challenges. Here’s a question...

the more broadly you want to define skill challenge the more case based the criticisms of it are going to be. 4e skill challenges were...

I think social skill challenges in certain social situations can make sense. Primarily ones where the NPC motivations and reasoning...

I'm not an expert on Skill Challenges and we generally run things our way. I use the framework provided in 4e to run my Skill...

I’m not sure what you mean here. My understanding is that the 4e skill challenges rules do not allow this. I would be more open to a...

But that is not what the rules actually do. Rules do not care about obstacles, they care about the number of successful checks. Thus if...

Maybe if you directly addressed the criticism, because I don’t follow the significance of whatever point you are trying to make here...

I’ve gotten that vibe before about my play as well, but it’s usually quickly dismissed Why though? If the premise is this band of...

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.