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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fluxx" data-source="post: 4855844" data-attributes="member: 82639">Hi!Last weekend I read your System and I think it has some really nice ideas. The expend of ressources is much more like in a real fight. The rolls for failure  give some elements of tension. The different consequences make it easy to design skillchallenges with different feeling.But there are some things I think one should look at:- First is a question: you say your players made all skillchallenges - but at what cost? Did they loose about 1 surge the whole party or more about 10 surges?- You say: 'I don't think it's really as essential to have all players directly involved in a skill challenge as it is in a combat, mostly because SCs take so little time.' I have to agree and disagree at once <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> I agree that it is not nescessary that everyone must have a meaningful role in every skillchallenge. If it is a mainly social SC my Int 8-Cha 10-Fighter wouldn't be of much help and it is good not to force him to try. But on the other  hand you  only make a SC if the situation is important for the party - so it is not much fun to sit there and can't do anything. I think you need s.th. like the 'guiding light' from Stalker0's Cores System. S.th. to roll but not as important as the main-rolls...- What is about other ressources? Give them some interesting options: Action Point: spend an AP to get an additional roll this segment; daily Powers: mark an daily Power of your choice as used and get 3 additional SP on the next roll- think about a longer list of 'official' consequences: pressing: you have one roll less on the next segment, instabil: the primary skill changes (diplomacy-bluff-intimidate, athletics-acrobatics), minor important: 3 failures doesn't loose the SC but you only have a partial success.- make two kinds of consequences: one which is an effect on a failure (distracting, tiring)  and one kind changes the overall rules or has an effect on three failures (individual, partial,...). Every Conflict can have one consequence ofg each type- give the DM some meaningful decissions: perhaps he can choose each time which conflict will first test for failure (so he can try to inflict maximum surges damgae or can concentrate on denying a full succes by rushing the partial conflict...). Or he has some other minor toys to play with (like heroes can use APs or Powers). Perhaps here is a point where the players who had no roll this round can do s.th. by cutting down the options of the DM a bit.- if you have some experience with other number of plaers than 5 pleas tell it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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