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<blockquote data-quote="Harr" data-source="post: 4237835" data-attributes="member: 47190">Describe the situation without listing any of the possible skills. Let the players decribe their character's actions organically (&quot;I want to try to read the book&quot;), and YOU assign the skill they need to use (&quot;Ok, give me an Arcana check DC 15&quot;), using the written challenge as a guideline for what skill to ask for. When they inevitably describe something the written challenge doesn't cover, improvise and choose whatever skill seems best to you, again using the written challenge as a guideline for DC.Once you start playing, you'll find that this process is what you will naturally fall into.Whether you want to make them aware that they're in a skill challenge in the first place is completely up to you (I choose to do so, it works well).Edit -&gt; This is all you really need to know to run a good skill challenge, (or this and a couple false starts maybe, to get the experience) I'd recommend staying away from the old skill challenge threads as they quickly became clogged with an astounding amount of misinterpretations and over-analysis which makes them a lot more difficult to understand than they actually are.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Harr, post: 4237835, member: 47190"] Describe the situation without listing any of the possible skills. Let the players decribe their character's actions organically ("I want to try to read the book"), and YOU assign the skill they need to use ("Ok, give me an Arcana check DC 15"), using the written challenge as a guideline for what skill to ask for. When they inevitably describe something the written challenge doesn't cover, improvise and choose whatever skill seems best to you, again using the written challenge as a guideline for DC. Once you start playing, you'll find that this process is what you will naturally fall into. Whether you want to make them aware that they're in a skill challenge in the first place is completely up to you (I choose to do so, it works well). Edit -> This is all you really need to know to run a good skill challenge, (or this and a couple false starts maybe, to get the experience) I'd recommend staying away from the old skill challenge threads as they quickly became clogged with an astounding amount of misinterpretations and over-analysis which makes them a lot more difficult to understand than they actually are. [/QUOTE]

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