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But don't you do this in regular play all the time? You try to persuade the sweet old lady even though intimidate is your higher score...

But this is you choosing to adopt a shallower, degenerate mode of play in response to the added structure. Nothing about SCs forces you...

No it doesn't? Unless what you really mean here is 'the GM's exclusive discretion over the fiction'. What's the point of any dice rolls...

Yeah. 'I try to impress the zookeeper by telling him some animal facts I learned from my Hunt skill' 'I try to sneak up to the guards...

I guess there SCs still fulfil the same role as the rest of the rules, which is to create a structure that aids play even if at times it...

I threw my modem away years ago. Whenever I tried to use it to go online it made a funny noise.

Other people have done the opposite, which is why I posted it. Well, the Oberoni fallacy is about fixing what's broken. Are you saying...

I thought we weren't supposed to talk about politics?

I'm not super clear how the SC tangent really relates to the OP, but: I don't understand how skill challenges, uniquely among all the...

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

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...

Yes, in a manner of speaking. A shorter path relies on the idea that there is some 'right answer' in a situation. It denies that the...

I don't want to get so wrapped up in SCs, so, lets say one last thing about them which is pretty important IMHO: The way they are...

It occurs to me that a parallel situation might be 'I roleplayed out that conversation so well, why is the GM still making me roll a...