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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 6181716" data-attributes="member: 20323">[MENTION=6668292]JamesonCourage[/MENTION] Nice play reports! Thanks for sharing, it's good to hear you guys taking to 4e well. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> You seem to have the system pretty well dialed in. The only advice I can offer has to do with investigative skill challenges...in your scenario the group had failed but one PC was able to use a skill challenge to prevent them from failing and thus they were able to acquire all the info they needed to continue on with the adventure.Not sure if you meant to set it up this way or not, but generally I have adopted the GUMSHOE approach to investigations. In every scene when you take any reasonable action to gain a &quot;core clue&quot; you automatically get that clue (a core clue being something necessary to drive the mystery forward). Scenes also have secondary clues which require skill checks to obtain, and that's where the skill challenge takes place, in the secondary clues. That way the players never get bottlenecked nor do you end up with situations where the DM bends the rules so they succeed and get the clues they need.Again, not sure how your setup looked behind the scenes, but it is something worth thinking about.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 6181716, member: 20323"] [MENTION=6668292]JamesonCourage[/MENTION] Nice play reports! Thanks for sharing, it's good to hear you guys taking to 4e well. :) You seem to have the system pretty well dialed in. The only advice I can offer has to do with investigative skill challenges...in your scenario the group had failed but one PC was able to use a skill challenge to prevent them from failing and thus they were able to acquire all the info they needed to continue on with the adventure. Not sure if you meant to set it up this way or not, but generally I have adopted the GUMSHOE approach to investigations. In every scene when you take any reasonable action to gain a "core clue" you automatically get that clue (a core clue being something necessary to drive the mystery forward). Scenes also have secondary clues which require skill checks to obtain, and that's where the skill challenge takes place, in the secondary clues. That way the players never get bottlenecked nor do you end up with situations where the DM bends the rules so they succeed and get the clues they need. Again, not sure how your setup looked behind the scenes, but it is something worth thinking about. [/QUOTE]

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