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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwoSix" data-source="post: 6205559" data-attributes="member: 205">Well, the fire drakes tied into the Ranger PC's paragon path choice of Wyrmslayer.  And the sacrificial baby was added in by the same player, so there may be a rationale there.  It could easily be a method of raising the stakes of the encounter, and explaining why the chamberlain had no desire for the PCs to be there.  (Most people don't want to be seen feeding babies to dragons, after all.)And the chamberlain only relented after almost being eaten by dragons, and his baby-tribute ploy being averted.  Since we're at "kingdom in crisis" mode here, why not pass off the PCs to the King at this point, especially since the King had obviously signed off on the plan?Also, as  [MENTION=6696971]Manbearcat[/MENTION] pointed out, getting a 6-0 result on the skill challenge was unexpected.  I'll assume the characters had a 22 in the relevant stat (18 base, +4 at 14th level, a solid assumption for 4e since the skill checks were all based on primary or secondary stats for the characters in question).  That makes their base skill chance a +18 (+5 trained, +6 stat, +7 levels).  With a DC of 25, and a hard DC of 29 used once, we'd expect a baseline of 2 failures.  Only the deployment of character resources (action points and character abilities) prevented these failures on several occasions.</blockquote>