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<blockquote data-quote="James McMurray" data-source="post: 4451802" data-attributes="member: 743">I don't see Aid Another as that big of a deal in Skill Challenges. It's not available in many challenges, which means if you decide to allow it you'll know ahead of time and can adjust DCs to compensate. When the situation does fit letting people give +2 for a DC 10 freebie, you can up the base DCs or lower the XP.For the rest of the challenges, there are some where you can help others, but not at the default DC of 10. For those, you often need at least one person helping to have a better than average chance of succeeding.Skill challenges of the party's level and low complexity should be cakewalks. They represent the same challenge as a few monsters of their level. There should be a chance of failure, but it won't be high. When you want something tough, Complexity 5 and Level + 4 can cause some major brain sweat, especially if you're not allowing standard aid another and the ways in which you can aid are mostly secondary skills, so only usable once.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James McMurray, post: 4451802, member: 743"] I don't see Aid Another as that big of a deal in Skill Challenges. It's not available in many challenges, which means if you decide to allow it you'll know ahead of time and can adjust DCs to compensate. When the situation does fit letting people give +2 for a DC 10 freebie, you can up the base DCs or lower the XP. For the rest of the challenges, there are some where you can help others, but not at the default DC of 10. For those, you often need at least one person helping to have a better than average chance of succeeding. Skill challenges of the party's level and low complexity should be cakewalks. They represent the same challenge as a few monsters of their level. There should be a chance of failure, but it won't be high. When you want something tough, Complexity 5 and Level + 4 can cause some major brain sweat, especially if you're not allowing standard aid another and the ways in which you can aid are mostly secondary skills, so only usable once. [/QUOTE]

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