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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 4573049" data-attributes="member: 1210">Since we started our 4e campaign, I've run quite a few skill challenges- averaging probably over 1 per session. I love the idea, but am still fine-tuning my execution. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I've used, or set up, skill challenges for tons of different things, to wit:1. Evading enemy armies while traveling overland.2. Finding your way through an Underdark city without trouble. 3. Getting up and out of a buried tower. 4. Bargaining with dwarven merchants to get a better price.5. Investigating a frame-up of an important general. 6. Escaping from or falling into an illusory gnomish trap....and a bunch more. My most fun, most successful skill challenge so far was the "investigating a frame-up" challenge. As the pcs investigated the framing of the general, they made tons of skill checks, etc. along the way. I ruled that certain ones were 'key' and counted towards success or failure of the challenge. It took most of three sessions to play out; of course, the pcs were doing other stuff at the same time, so the skill challenge- though the central element of those three sessions, didn't dominate them.I've also learned that it's not always best to tell the pcs they're in a skill challenge immediately. Sometimes it's best not to divulge the skills they need until they experiment a little. (The gnome trap was a great example of this- if they succeed at the challenge, they never even know that the gnomes were assaulting them! If they fail, they end up falling into a gnome trap.)I'll agree 100% with Mearls on one thing- we're all still feeling out how to play and run skill challenges. But I repeat- they are AWESOME, and one of the very best things about 4e (which, while having a few areas in which I am not satisfied, has a few areas where it blows me away with how far it exceeds any prior dnd, and this is one of them)!</blockquote>

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