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Message: <blockquote data-quote="5ekyu" data-source="post: 7508383" data-attributes="member: 6919838">As you observed in your original post, a lot is set by the stakes. Does your friends falling down stories affect the entire group after they failed at the collapsing bridge? Depends on if they went first or last, if the fall was clumsiness or more bridge collapse thaypt leads to the others rightly or wrongly deciding to abandon that crossing - making the time spent getting there a waste. I think that the mechanics and narrative need to be in sync. If a failure mechanically is agreed to be a result that affects thrm all, then narratively that should define the nature of the test and the outcome. And of course vice versa.If the first two had made it over the bridge, made successes, and that would have counted towards the group successes tally, then it makes sense that those stakes cut both ways, narratively and mechanically, barring an exceptional setup.This is not an argument for or against skill challenges or other resolution choices, as you observe skill challenge might not be the right method for a given circumstance. Its also not even a definitive "must cut both ways" since one can imagine cases where an effort can have at risk a benefit to everyone but only loss to one - which moves it off the skill challenge path.</blockquote>