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<blockquote data-quote="bpauls" data-source="post: 5565462" data-attributes="member: 6676720">The best skill challenge resources I have found are:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">DMG1 &amp; DMG2</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">The &quot;Galaxy of Intrigue&quot; supplement for the Star Wars Roleplaying Game</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">The &quot;Ruling Skill Challenges&quot; columns in Dungeon Magazine on DDI</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Rules Compendium</li>
</ul>You probably don't have time to read all of that before tomorrow night. If you have access to DDI, I recommend skimming through the &quot;Ruling Skill Challenges&quot; columns. They provide some of the best examples of skill challenges I have seen, along with insightful analysis by Mike Mearls (usually) as to why he constructed each challenge the way he did.If you have time to read about 30 pages, the Skill Challenges chapter in &quot;Galaxy of Intrigue&quot; is top-notch. It's not D&amp;D, but it's the same underlying rules system--and I believe skill challenges are presented better in &quot;Galaxy of Intrigue&quot; than in any of the published D&amp;D material.Finally, while most of the advice written about skill challenges is for DMs, I felt that my players could really benefit from some suggestions about how to make skill challenges into a great gaming experience. I took what I thought were the most salient points for players from the above sources, and compiled them into <a href="http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/the-overland-park-campaign/wikis/a-players-guide-to-skill-challenges" target="_blank">A Players' Guide to Skill Challenges</a>.This is still pretty much a first draft, but I think it frames skill challenges in a way that players will find helpful. Perhaps it will be useful for your group, during your first foray as a 4e DM.Congratulations! Welcome to the other side of the 4e screen...&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="bpauls, post: 5565462, member: 6676720"] The best skill challenge resources I have found are: [LIST] [*]DMG1 & DMG2 [*]The "Galaxy of Intrigue" supplement for the Star Wars Roleplaying Game [*]The "Ruling Skill Challenges" columns in Dungeon Magazine on DDI [*]The Rules Compendium [/LIST] You probably don't have time to read all of that before tomorrow night. If you have access to DDI, I recommend skimming through the "Ruling Skill Challenges" columns. They provide some of the best examples of skill challenges I have seen, along with insightful analysis by Mike Mearls (usually) as to why he constructed each challenge the way he did. If you have time to read about 30 pages, the Skill Challenges chapter in "Galaxy of Intrigue" is top-notch. It's not D&D, but it's the same underlying rules system--and I believe skill challenges are presented better in "Galaxy of Intrigue" than in any of the published D&D material. Finally, while most of the advice written about skill challenges is for DMs, I felt that my [I]players[/I] could really benefit from some suggestions about how to make skill challenges into a great gaming experience. I took what I thought were the most salient points for players from the above sources, and compiled them into [URL="http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/the-overland-park-campaign/wikis/a-players-guide-to-skill-challenges"]A Players' Guide to Skill Challenges[/URL]. This is still pretty much a first draft, but I think it frames skill challenges in a way that players will find helpful. Perhaps it will be useful for your group, during your first foray as a 4e DM. Congratulations! Welcome to the other side of the 4e screen... :) [/QUOTE]

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