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<blockquote data-quote="Caliber" data-source="post: 4837364" data-attributes="member: 1310">So far I've run three skill challenges for my group, and I can't really claim any were successes. The first two I attempted to do &quot;seamlessly&quot;, that is, I didn't tell the party they were in a skill challenge, just tried to coax them into offering solutions. Unfortunately, this didn't seem to engage my players much at all. Mostly they ignored the challenges. The third attempt I went more explicitly, telling them it was a skill challenge and offering some default skills. There was a good bit more buy in this time. I'm a little anxious about the challenge coming up next session but I think I'm starting to get a handle on how they should work (at least for my group). What I plan on doing is this: The players are searching for a foe who is hiding from them in town. Either way they'll find him, but on failure there questions will alert him to their search, letting him prepare for their pursuit. I have a list of skills I'm going to offer them as some defaults, while allowing them to use any skill they want as long as they can give me a rationale for its use. For the record, I use something close to the Obsidian system where instead of losing due to 3 failures, the party loses due to not getting enough successes in 3 rounds. One problem I've had is often several players seem to prefer just aiding one party member and letting them make the check, so hopefully the Obsidian system will goad them towards actively participating individually. Sorry if that doesn't make sense, that was really freeform thought up above. I'll be keeping my eye on this thread though. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Caliber, post: 4837364, member: 1310"] So far I've run three skill challenges for my group, and I can't really claim any were successes. The first two I attempted to do "seamlessly", that is, I didn't tell the party they were in a skill challenge, just tried to coax them into offering solutions. Unfortunately, this didn't seem to engage my players much at all. Mostly they ignored the challenges. The third attempt I went more explicitly, telling them it was a skill challenge and offering some default skills. There was a good bit more buy in this time. I'm a little anxious about the challenge coming up next session but I think I'm starting to get a handle on how they should work (at least for my group). What I plan on doing is this: The players are searching for a foe who is hiding from them in town. Either way they'll find him, but on failure there questions will alert him to their search, letting him prepare for their pursuit. I have a list of skills I'm going to offer them as some defaults, while allowing them to use any skill they want as long as they can give me a rationale for its use. For the record, I use something close to the Obsidian system where instead of losing due to 3 failures, the party loses due to not getting enough successes in 3 rounds. One problem I've had is often several players seem to prefer just aiding one party member and letting them make the check, so hopefully the Obsidian system will goad them towards actively participating individually. Sorry if that doesn't make sense, that was really freeform thought up above. I'll be keeping my eye on this thread though. :) [/QUOTE]

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