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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 4204527" data-attributes="member: 15651">What I'm wondering is if there will be a mechanism for opposed skill challenges.  For example if there was a debate between the PCs and another party both appealing to the Lord to trust them over the other side.  It could be a situation where the PCs need to gain a certain number of successes before the other side does, but I then realized the DM is playing the other side and has the advantage of knowing the parameters for the debate, so he couldn't have the NPCs use Intimidate and get a failure without knowing that it was an automatic failure.I'm thinking opposed rolls in this case might work.  For example: The PCs use Diplomacy to sway the Lord.  The NPC uses History to remind the Lord about the last time they trusted outsiders.  NPC gets higher result = 1 failure for PCs.  NPCs use Bluff to convince the Lord that Noble X trusted them in similar circumstances 2 months ago.  PC use Knowledge to recall that Noble X was away on a hunting expedition during that time.  PCs get higher result = 1 success.  I guess in this case I would probably even out the number of successes to failures since it isn't as passive as they PCs just having to meet a set DC for success.  Thoughts?</blockquote>