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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ninja-to" data-source="post: 4376074" data-attributes="member: 19551">Ok so the Dungeon module 'Heathen' has me pretty confused. It could be that I haven't read through the whole DMG yet and I'm missing something, but if anyone can please enlighten me on a few things.The Skill Challenge is a mystery to me. First I don't understand why exactly it exists, let alone justify it to the players as necessary to pass for them to progress. Yeah I can understand the need to be able to find a trail or whatever, but the skill challenge text itself is missing some pretty critical information (correct me if I'm wrong here, maybe it's somewhere else in the module or it's in the DMG or somethign).First, what happens if you succeed on a check? You've done what, exactly? You pass the Nature (DC 18) check which means... you've found a trail? Ok, what happens if you don't pass that check? You roam around aimlessly? As a side note, I suppose finding a trail is a nature check while finding tracks is a perception check? Hmm...Ok same question for each of those skill checks, what happens should you succeed, what happens if you fail? That's probably the most important question. One other thing that's vague though is just how many villages are you supposed to go through before 'making' it? Do you progress through each of the skill checks just once, then at the end you've 'made it'?If someone can break this skill challenge down nice and simply for me I'd be very grateful. Maybe my mind is just slow but it's still not making much sense to me no matter how many times I read it. Like I said not sure if the answers are in the DMG, haven't had time to get in and search.</blockquote>

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