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Yeah, skill challenges in general just aren't really interesting. I generally rewrite them to either involve combat directly (meld the challenge with an adjacent combat encounter) or boon/penalize the players in the next combat, rather than just have an instant "fail, lose 2 healing surges" or...

The metagame issue is more a concern for the other players who don't care about these things as much. Player A is a math head and likes to reverse engineer DCs, player B is a roleplayer who just wants to get into the mindset of his character and run with it. My concern was that player A's...

Hi there, I had a DM recently that did something interesting that I thought I might pick the brains of the collective wisdom here about. This DM has an interesting rule that I'm waffling about incorporating myself: skill rolls are all done by him, behind his screen; we just provide our check...