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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Moochava" data-source="post: 4313828" data-attributes="member: 39691">If crafting is such an important part of your game, skill challenges are the way to go: skill challenges are there to provide as much focus as possible on something that isn't combat. I like the nature/dungeoneering/streetwise divide. I'd also be tempted to rope heal in there for creating medicines.Give everything one can craft in your game a complexity of 1-5 and use that to define the skill challenge. At least one person must roll a success on on appropriate skill (nature for wood and bone, dungeoneering for stone and metal, streetwise for luxuries, heal for medicines, poultices, and maybe sewing); other than that, people contribute however they want. A successful roll means that the item is crafted; a failed roll means that things go wrong and you don't get the item. If things go wrong quickly, it probably went wrong in the butchering/harvest phase; if things go wrong only at the end, it probably went wrong in the building phase. For a failure, throw a relevant encounter at the party, from bears attracted to the smell of meat to angry neighbors smashing the smithy because it makes too much noise.That assumes that crafting is as important to your game as, say, combat; that is, it's a major occupation for the characters. If it's not, people are right to say just to glide over it--unless it's contributing to the game, you're just rolling craft checks for atmosphere's sake.</blockquote>

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