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I am honestly completely mystified here. If 'hunt' is your best skill, then why would the existence or absence of a Skill Challenge...

Yeah, this is a whole other point. Nothing has been lost, if you were already assuming limitless GM power to say this or that, then they...

But players don’t do that without a progress clock? Well, if the module doesn’t expect this is possible, how did you know it was more...

I thought the objection to skill challenges was that it's not possible to go faster or slower. Now the objection seems to be that skill...

How is this relevant to the thread topic? Are you interested in talking about alternatives to map-and-key as a way for establishing...

Yes, of course. All of us who would use an SC are obviously such incompetent fools that we can't judge actions and appropriate...

Here are some examples; they frame the situation as one of overcoming an obstacle or resolving an obstacle: The 4e DMG (p 72) uses...

And you're assuming that a party who deploys some far less effective methods are ever in line for success! Honestly, there's an answer...

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

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

Sure there is. The arbitrary threshold is whatever the GM decides. I’m also not sure how “clever approaches the GM hadn’t thought of...

The main difference I see is that with the skill challenge, the number of successes and failures are set and known ahead of time. The...

The scenario in B2 is not about identifying motivations or enjoying a plausible story. It's a dungeon to be beaten. I know, from...

The DMG says the following (pp 72, 74-6: More so than perhaps any other kind of encounter, a skill challenge is defined by its context...

By whom? I mean, I know very little about your play. I don't recall ever reading an actual play thread started by you. This thread...