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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Zardoz" data-source="post: 4171919" data-attributes="member: 704">The Skill system is not the same thing as a Skill challenge.If you need to jump over a hole in mid combat, that would just be an Athletics check, and you either succeed or you do not.If the DM wants to build an entire encounter around a series of skill checks, the Skill Challenge system comes into play.  The DM chooses a number of successes before number of Failures, and describes the situation.  The players then decide how to deal with the situation at hand using which ever skills they think best apply.If the DM is convinced the skill is reasonably applicable, the skill check is rolled, and the DM pulls some narrative out of his arse to describe the situation.  Although it is an assumption, I do not expect the players to be able to use a Diplomacy check to help get across an unstable bridge over an active volcano.The point of the skill challenge is it allows the DM to create flexible encounters that aren't dependent on the players knowing exactly what skill check to use.  Because the players have some choice in how they deal with the situation, rather than just asking the DM what check they need to make, it gets the players much more involved in the encounter.END COMMUNICATION</blockquote>