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<blockquote data-quote="FadedC" data-source="post: 4091859" data-attributes="member: 55463">Well I'm pretty sure the skill check system for the chase assumes a constant running away on the part of the characters. It's not like they standing in place turning over apple carts, it's like a chase scene in a movie where lots of things like this happen over the course of the actual running and leaving the city.But I agree, if you can take the time to plot out the entire city and where all the alleys and escape routes and major NPCs are, that's far superior and cooler then just using the skill challenge system. But I know very few DMs who could pull that off and make the chase scene feel like a chase scene. If your one of the few who can then more power to you.The only thing the new system might give you if you are using a more specific simulation of the escape are some rules for under what circumstances somebody escapes or gets caught. Often it's hard to adjudicate what the consequences really are for going down a dead end or other problems. Having successes and failures that add up gives a way to actually determine how close or far the players are from being caught by the guards. Your only other option is to somehow try to calculate the movement rates and positions of all the guards, or making completely arbitrary decisions about weither the players get caught when they run into the deadend or not.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FadedC, post: 4091859, member: 55463"] Well I'm pretty sure the skill check system for the chase assumes a constant running away on the part of the characters. It's not like they standing in place turning over apple carts, it's like a chase scene in a movie where lots of things like this happen over the course of the actual running and leaving the city. But I agree, if you can take the time to plot out the entire city and where all the alleys and escape routes and major NPCs are, that's far superior and cooler then just using the skill challenge system. But I know very few DMs who could pull that off and make the chase scene feel like a chase scene. If your one of the few who can then more power to you. The only thing the new system might give you if you are using a more specific simulation of the escape are some rules for under what circumstances somebody escapes or gets caught. Often it's hard to adjudicate what the consequences really are for going down a dead end or other problems. Having successes and failures that add up gives a way to actually determine how close or far the players are from being caught by the guards. Your only other option is to somehow try to calculate the movement rates and positions of all the guards, or making completely arbitrary decisions about weither the players get caught when they run into the deadend or not. [/QUOTE]

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