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<blockquote data-quote="LostSoul" data-source="post: 4204339" data-attributes="member: 386">We can cut initiative.&nbsp; I do want to make sure that every player getrs a chance to act once per round.My thought - from what I've read - was that Easy checks were worse to fail.&nbsp; You'd rather try to get an Easy check, but if you roll a one it's bad.&nbsp; So it's still a gamble that way.&nbsp; I don't know if the math works out at all, though.Are you saying that we shouldn't differentiate between success or failure - only the DC is different?&nbsp; If the DC is hidden from the players, that's cool with me.I think he's talking about times where failure = the game ends.&nbsp; An example of this is when you need to get a specific clue to tell you where the evil cult gathering to end the world is, and without it the PCs just wander around with nothing to do.&nbsp; Another example is a wilderness trek to get to a dungeon.&nbsp; You can't fail and not get to the dungeon if the whole night's adventure was in the dungeon!What you do in these cases is change the goal slightly.&nbsp; &quot;Do you get the clue in time to be prepared, or are you rushing?&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Do you make it through the Blood Fens without incident, or are you attacked by monsters, cut, poisoned, and diseased?&quot;That really isn't the sort of skill challenge we're doing here, though, so we're okay.&nbsp; I have no idea what failure will mean right now, but I will try to make failure escalate the conflict instead of the opposite.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="LostSoul, post: 4204339, member: 386"] We can cut initiative. I do want to make sure that every player getrs a chance to act once per round. My thought - from what I've read - was that Easy checks were worse to fail. You'd rather try to get an Easy check, but if you roll a one it's bad. So it's still a gamble that way. I don't know if the math works out at all, though. Are you saying that we shouldn't differentiate between success or failure - only the DC is different? If the DC is hidden from the players, that's cool with me. I think he's talking about times where failure = the game ends. An example of this is when you need to get a specific clue to tell you where the evil cult gathering to end the world is, and without it the PCs just wander around with nothing to do. Another example is a wilderness trek to get to a dungeon. You can't fail and not get to the dungeon if the whole night's adventure was in the dungeon! What you do in these cases is change the goal slightly. "Do you get the clue in time to be prepared, or are you rushing?" "Do you make it through the Blood Fens without incident, or are you attacked by monsters, cut, poisoned, and diseased?" That really isn't the sort of skill challenge we're doing here, though, so we're okay. I have no idea what failure will mean right now, but I will try to make failure escalate the conflict instead of the opposite. [/QUOTE]

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