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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5732409" data-attributes="member: 2067">There is this bit in Monte's article that I haven't talked much about, mostly because I can't quite grok how he's using "character powers:" how do you make a challenge?For me, the old improv standby of "at least three" works pretty well. I might not have a clear answer in mind when I present them with the challenge, but I should be able to think of at least three ways they can solve the problem. Of course, they can always make up their own answer, and I'm inclined to "say yes" and let it work, and then "yes, but" or "yes, and" and complicate the success in some way. So the dragon is immune to fire. There's at least three things within the scope of the party's arsenal it is not immune to: like cold attacks, like lightning attacks, like swords, like a ballista bolt from the nearby fortress ruins...etc.So there's an invisible force-field. There's at least three ways the party can get around it: go around, dispel, or speak with the soul of the dead wizard who made it in the first place.There may be other ways to solve it, too, and I'm inclined to allow the party's plans to work, though if they work, I'll add a complication: Yes, you can bash it down it...BUT, when you do, it shatters violently and shards of invisible force tear through everyone. Yes, you can dump a rock on the dragon's head...AND that rock also was sealing off a cave where a mass of tentacled horrors lurked, so now you have that to deal with, too....and so on. Any challenge with one and only one solution isn't a very flexible challenge.</blockquote>

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