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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ProfessorPain" data-source="post: 4671701" data-attributes="member: 82012"><p>I addressed this in earlier posts. The adventure should never hinge on a single skill check roll. If one bad roll means everything falls apart, then the GM is either going to have to fudge, or stop the adenture mid way through. You need to have creative consequences for failure. If you have a ravine and the party knows the guy with no ranks, isn't a good jumper,  they should seek an alternate path (and there should probably be one). If they want to risk it, they can do so. Say the characters who took the skill make their Jump Skill Check. But the last guy, who has no ranks, fails. If you are a tough GM, you have him fall to his death (which doesn't mean the party has failed, just been gimped a little). In my campaigns, I would make the failure mean further challenges before the party can move on. Maybe the guy falls down into a river and is forced to find his way back to the party. And so the group is split for some of the adventure (trust me, splitting the party up can be lots of fun-- you just want to throw encounters at the lone party member that he can handle alone). Or perhaps the party doesn't want to go on without him, so they organize an expedition into the ravine to save their pal. These are the kinds of suspensful and exciting scenes we see in movies all the time, and they are normally a product of a character failing his "skill roll". Even though failing the roll, hasn't caused the party to fail at the adventure, it has raised the stakes and is therefore relevant.  If failing a skill check means that the adventure comes to a halt, and there is not other path around, then you are always going to rig it so the players pass. In that case, the skills themselves are not even relevant. What you need to do, is make failure a possibility, but know how to keep things going and keep things interesting when the failures occur. Besides you don't want to rail road the party or have adventure bottlenecks. The whole point is to create excitement, suspsense and fun.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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