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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6294164" data-attributes="member: 6696971">This is just me and my preferences talking here so while I'm certain there are plenty of others who share this preference, I have no idea how widely held it is (perhaps not that widely held given how often folks use adventures and how popular APs are).In the same way that I have no idea how I could properly use an adventure or adventure path, I have no idea what use I could get out of a scripted Skill Challenge.  I know some people are able to do it (and do it well -  [MENTION=1210]the Jester[/MENTION] and  [MENTION=20323]Quickleaf[/MENTION] to name two I know of that are so inclined and adept) but I can't imagine how I could make it work.  A single conflict is such a malleable, organic thing, prone to such a vexing myriad of prospective outcomes, that I don't know of what use it would be for me to even attempt to organize/map half of the potential outcomes, let alone all of them.  I can understand, now and again, being prepared with a small, guiding list of pithy, prospective complications and fallout.  But, much of the time, the conflict will evolve dramatically from the scene opener even before the rising action gets underway.  It will be rather difficult to predict, with consistent precision, where things might go and you must always take care that you don't artificially constrain player choice such that All Roads Lead to Rome.  In my GMing experience (which admittedly is very low prep, very high improv - which I'm adept at), it just seems cost prohibitive to spend a lot of time on prep for abstract, noncombat conflict resolution.  Things will go where they are going to go and you're more likely to not see it coming than you are to have predicted it.As such, if a MM gave me a hard SC (let alone one for each individual legendary/mythical monster) that they thought I could actually run in one of my game sessions, they will have wasted an extraordinary amount of page count and effort and charged me for it.  But, I may be in the extreme minority on this given how well Pathfinder APs sell and how much out of game prep some GMs perform (and seem to enjoy).</blockquote>

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