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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Insight" data-source="post: 4079330" data-attributes="member: 11437">Yes.  The players decide which difficulty level they wish to attempt.  They also pick which skill they want to use to attempt to take the skill challenge.  For example, in the preview game...[sblock]... we were on the run from city guardsmen.  My character, a Ranger, was pretty good at Athletics and Stealth.  The DM told us to choose which skill we wanted to use, choose a challenge level, and then describe how we were accomplishing escaping the city using the skill we chose.  I decided that my Ranger was going to use the rooftops, jumping from building to building, to escape the city.  I proposed using Stealth and Athletics to do so.  Since I really didn't know how the skill challenge system worked, I chose 'medium', which turned out to be a roll of 10 or better for me (the Ranger had a +9 in both Stealth and Athletics).  Later, I took on another skill challenge and decided to go for a 'high' challenge, and made that roll as well, escaping the city (a victory condition).[/sblock]In terms of the benefits or drawbacks of the 'low', 'medium', and 'high' challenge tiers, I'm not sure.  The DM said that we would get a 'victory condition' if any of us suceeded in a 'high' challenge, which my character made in the preview game.  I can't say for sure whether there are any drawbacks to choosing the 'low' condition, since none of us tried that.</blockquote>