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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...

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...

The notion that there is some finish line and progress bar eludes me. The constraints on the DMs narration are the fiction, including...

I was soured on SCs after trying them out with the original rules a few times. Never bothered revisting when they "fixed" them in what I...

If only it actually stated any of the above in the DMG. As it was, it just felt to me like a creaky, overly mechanistic way to resolve...

But that's what skill challenge rules say, They have set of skills you can use and then set of secondary skills that might face higher...

Thank you for the explanation and example. This seems good to me; that the different approaches produce different outcomes and that...

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...

Why are we having a challenge mechanic if the characters are not in a challenge? What does nay of this represent? Why does arbitrary...

Have you ever been burned out on a game that you've never even played before, because of that one person who just won't shut up about...

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...

Which makes it very "mechanics first, fiction as colour." If the player invents something clever that should resolve the situation then...

Yeah, this is why I always found them unsatisfying as presented. They simply do not do what I want them to do. The "gameplay" becomes...

When Revenge was rereleased for the 20th anniversary, it pulled $40 million. A New Hope could be even higher.

But that is not how it has been used here nor I think this is even correct.