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Where is this finish line? The truth is less sanguine! In a vacuum there's no 'path' with any specific 'length'. The GM can simply ask...

Seriously? Because this is not a fair, or accurate, description of SCs in total. The rules ALSO state that skill use has to make sense...

Exactly! Right. Now, a valid criticism of a technique might be that it incites this kind of thing, but I don't think that is the case...

At a big standard level the DC for each check is the same, but some skills are considered primary, your first use is at the medium DC...

Do you mean like describing them literally as “alternatives”? Like in the title of the thread. Good grief. Imagined ones. It’s...

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

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...

Well, lets not overemphasize that. I'll take the example of Dungeon World, since I am running it now. The players, before creating...

What examples were you thinking of? Because this isn't my experience.

I don't think this characterisation of narrativist games as relying on players being uninterested in a particular outcome is correct. I...

I don't even understand you. Why are you playing a game at all? I am playing one for the same reasons, because the structure of the game...

And in which type of game would it NOT be true that this is a goal of the players', or at least a strategy! I don't send my wizard out...

So, there was discussion of In a Wicked Age and 'agendas' (best interests to use IaWA terminology). I think we then have some hybrid...

Here’s the types I think we’ve covered so far: Map-and-key Draw a map, fill it with content. Where the players go, there is where the...

It's a decision about "weight", about the degree of focus/attention to be given, in play, to this particular matter. Which is no more...