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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vagabundo" data-source="post: 4190008" data-attributes="member: 55864">I'm running a 4e game at the moment and I am designing a skill challenge for next weeks game.Here is the setup, all ideas gratefully accepted:A small fortified village in a dangerous area. Just before the PCs arrive a situation has developed. When the PCs arrive an elder in the village, a retired Border Ranger, interviews the PCs at the gate. He is expecting them and has a mission for them. However before he can discuss it the situation must be resolved. He is only back in the village an hour before, out training Border Ranger initiates, when he is informed that a traveler arrived that morning claiming he is injured. He was permitted access, in spite of strict rules for dealing with strangers. The Elder believes that the gate guard was influenced magically. He went immediately to the Inn, where the stranger was given a room. The stranger was gone, he is loose in the village. The Elder believes that this human was in fact an undead shapeshifter and the hunt for the creature is on. The creature has killed a seamstress in a small house, next to the Inn and hidden the body in the crawl space under her house. He is now masquerading as the seamstress. I want the Skill Challenge to expose the shapeshifter. The challenge is time sensitive, if the shapeshifter is left too long it will dispose of the body and will psychically perfect it's disguise from others in the village. It's target is the Elder. The village will assume that the Traveler left the village, a mystery, and soon forget.Anyway, I'm looking for some ideas if the PCs start flagging and some structure (DCs) for the challenge. I'm not actully sure how skill challenges work, Ive check the treads on them but they lack details.Thanks <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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