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<blockquote data-quote="Starfox" data-source="post: 4280866" data-attributes="member: 2303">I was going to post something much like this, but the boards swallowed my post.Anyway, I like your proposed system. The standard system suffered because it made &quot;aid other&quot; almost a required activity if you didn't have a 75% chance to succeed. Which ran directly counter to the &quot;activate all the players&quot; idea of skill challenges.Making this scale for more complex challenges needs more work, tough. TORG had a Dramatic Skill Resolution System that was somewhat like Skill Challenges yet very different. I'm writing it out here in abbreviated form to give inspiration.* You always had 10 rounds to complete the task. 10 rounds was a good static time in TORG, where rounds went by pretty quick; it might be so for D&amp;D too,* Dramatic Skill resolution had 4 required steps, and the situation changed as you completed each step. Say you wanted to escape a room filling with water in four easy steps. (Using 3.0 skill names because they come easier to me)A: Reach up to the sluice controls (Climb, Strength (for lifting))B: Open the drainage hole (Strength to lift the plug). C: Close the sluice gates (Disable device). Guards start shooting through the now dry sluice gates.D: Open the door once the water has drained out sufficiently (Strength with a decreasing difficulty for each round)In this case, the timer would stop once you completed step C, replacing it with a threat of getting shot from above. For added fun, add a constrictor snake you have to fight in the pit.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Starfox, post: 4280866, member: 2303"] I was going to post something much like this, but the boards swallowed my post. Anyway, I like your proposed system. The standard system suffered because it made "aid other" almost a required activity if you didn't have a 75% chance to succeed. Which ran directly counter to the "activate all the players" idea of skill challenges. Making this scale for more complex challenges needs more work, tough. TORG had a Dramatic Skill Resolution System that was somewhat like Skill Challenges yet very different. I'm writing it out here in abbreviated form to give inspiration. * You always had 10 rounds to complete the task. 10 rounds was a good static time in TORG, where rounds went by pretty quick; it might be so for D&D too, * Dramatic Skill resolution had 4 required steps, and the situation changed as you completed each step. Say you wanted to escape a room filling with water in four easy steps. (Using 3.0 skill names because they come easier to me) A: Reach up to the sluice controls (Climb, Strength (for lifting)) B: Open the drainage hole (Strength to lift the plug). C: Close the sluice gates (Disable device). Guards start shooting through the now dry sluice gates. D: Open the door once the water has drained out sufficiently (Strength with a decreasing difficulty for each round) In this case, the timer would stop once you completed step C, replacing it with a threat of getting shot from above. For added fun, add a constrictor snake you have to fight in the pit. [/QUOTE]

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