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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hella_Tellah" data-source="post: 4127138" data-attributes="member: 52669">Maybe I'll be proven wrong by the system as written, but for now, I'm using it this way:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Define the players' goal.  The DM decides how many successes he wants to require, and what the threshold for failure should be.  The DM could verbalize this or not, her call.  Ex: "We want to find the Black Alter of McGuffin."  The DM thinks, "That should take them some time--maybe six successes--but it'll take at least three failures to really set them off course.".</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Let the players come up with uses for their skills.  If they seem strange, say, "Convince me."  Ex: "I use History to see if I know something about its past."  Ex2: "I use Acrobatics."  "Really?  How?"</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Players and DM together decide the difficulty of the task, and whether they want to go ahead with it.  This reflects my playstyle, by the way--you might just decide the DC in your head and not inform the players, if that helps maintain verisimilitude.  Ex: "That History check is going to be hard, but it'll give you a boost to subsequent checks."  "Ooh, okay, I'll do a Religion check"  "Yeah, that's an Easy check."</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Roll.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Move on to the next player.  The most fundamental part of this system is that it calls for whole-party creativity.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Whether the PCs fail or succeed, make the outcome fun and interesting.  Ex: Your research leads you to a glade a few miles into the king's hunting grounds.  There doesn't seem to be any alter here, but you do see a hunting party a couple hundred yards off.  Roll Stealth to see if they find you here.</li> </ul>This is how I'll be using the Skill Challenge framework in any game I run, not just D&D.</blockquote>

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