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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3587182" data-attributes="member: 4937">1) Liberal use of skill checks.Some suggestions:a) Fighting on uneven, broken, or sloping terrain (ei you are distracted and can't take 10) requires a balance check.  Even if this check is only DC 5, with armor check penalties and few skill points, it will come up a couple times that characters will stumble and/or fall.b) Force them to make Appraise skill checks before you describe the loot.  If they get thier appraise wrong, mis-describe the loot - ei they mistake brass for gold, silver or gold plating for sold silver, or vica versa describe something as junk when its actually valuable.c) Enforce Knowledge checks to recognize monsters and hazards.  Without successful checks, keep your descriptions deliberately vague to minimize the characters access to meta-game information.d) Present them with puzzles which require a Knowledge checks to recieve clues. e) Place them in a wilderness situation where skills like survival, swim, profession (boating), ride, and handle animal would be useful.  For example, the dungeon where the macguffin is located is not easily accessible and a significant journey of many weeks must be undertaken to reach it.f) Place them in an upper class social setting where skills like sense motive, knowledge (nobility), diplomacy, perform (dancing) and bluff would be useful.  For example, to solve a crime that either has been committed or to prevent one that is about to be committed (or both).g) Present them with a problem where inflitration by guile would be preferable to head long assaut, making bluff, disguise, speak language, move silently, hide and sleight of hand are useful.  For example, the PC's could be assigned to acquire certain information from city which is hostile to the PC's own culture.2) Require INT checks when the characters ask OOC for information given in the past (the name of a certain PC they've met for example).3) Place them in positions where thier low intelligence causes a social penalty, such as interacting with scholars or other types that prize intelligence and judge people by same.  Then penalize thier social skills under the circumstances accordingly.4) Place them in situations where they must read languages other than common or interact with NPC's that don't know common.</blockquote>

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