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<blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6031649" data-attributes="member: 6696971"><p>@<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/members/greyice.html" target="_blank">GreyICE</a></p><p></p><p>If I may, I'll suggest a few things that might add something to your Skill Challenge as I've done something similar with a small colony of settlers (woodcutters and trappers primarily) with their settlement threatened by a vast forest fire (due to a few children playing around with an old summoning circle that they found in a ruin nearby and accidentally opening a portal to the Elemental Plane of Fire causing its denizens to pour forth). The PCs had to control/put out the fire, banish or destroy the elementals and close the portal.</p><p></p><p>1 - In that case I used Swarm mechanics for areas of spreading fire (if you want I could look up my old notes and reproduce it for you). If the PCs failed certain checks in the Skill Challenge, they would accrue a failure and have "combat encounters" with these mundane, animate fire swarms.</p><p></p><p>2 - I used a "Smoke Inhalation/Exposure" Condition Track (loss of surges > - 1 to Skill/Ability Checks, Defenses and Attack Rolls > and finally dazed) on the PCs that really amped up the tension and made the entirety of the Challenge more dangerous.</p><p></p><p>They actually narrowly failed this one (if I wouldn't have used the Condition Track and its secondary stage they likely would have won) as the entire settlement burned to the ground and all but a few of its inhabitants perished. They lost the settlement and most of the settlers (the ultimate goal of the Skill Challenge) but they did ultimately destroy the denizens from the EPoF, save the forest, and shut down the portal.</p><p></p><p>1 &/or 2 might work for you. Or not. Food for thought.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Manbearcat, post: 6031649, member: 6696971"] @[URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/members/greyice.html"]GreyICE[/URL] If I may, I'll suggest a few things that might add something to your Skill Challenge as I've done something similar with a small colony of settlers (woodcutters and trappers primarily) with their settlement threatened by a vast forest fire (due to a few children playing around with an old summoning circle that they found in a ruin nearby and accidentally opening a portal to the Elemental Plane of Fire causing its denizens to pour forth). The PCs had to control/put out the fire, banish or destroy the elementals and close the portal. 1 - In that case I used Swarm mechanics for areas of spreading fire (if you want I could look up my old notes and reproduce it for you). If the PCs failed certain checks in the Skill Challenge, they would accrue a failure and have "combat encounters" with these mundane, animate fire swarms. 2 - I used a "Smoke Inhalation/Exposure" Condition Track (loss of surges > - 1 to Skill/Ability Checks, Defenses and Attack Rolls > and finally dazed) on the PCs that really amped up the tension and made the entirety of the Challenge more dangerous. They actually narrowly failed this one (if I wouldn't have used the Condition Track and its secondary stage they likely would have won) as the entire settlement burned to the ground and all but a few of its inhabitants perished. They lost the settlement and most of the settlers (the ultimate goal of the Skill Challenge) but they did ultimately destroy the denizens from the EPoF, save the forest, and shut down the portal. 1 &/or 2 might work for you. Or not. Food for thought. [/QUOTE]
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