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<blockquote data-quote="Windjammer" data-source="post: 5134130" data-attributes="member: 60075">Yay, another one for running skill challenges in stealth mode and track successes behind the screen. You've been bested by Mearls' articles on this one, though I emphatically agree with suffering from assaults of narcolepsy at attempts to digest them.In my book, skill challenges are simply a design failure. If you run them in stealth mode, you might as well revert to the freeform roleplaying experience interspersed with the occasional skill check you've run oh so successfully all these years. If you don't, you reap all the problems outlined by your OP and in Mearls' own article (as in, break immersion, introduce artificialities, engage players at the wrong level, etc.). Either way, you're better without skill challenges. There, that's my one line advice on how to grok them. Yippee! I beat you in the contest for concision!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Windjammer, post: 5134130, member: 60075"] Yay, another one for running skill challenges in stealth mode and track successes behind the screen. You've been bested by Mearls' articles on this one, though I emphatically agree with suffering from assaults of narcolepsy at attempts to digest them. In my book, skill challenges are simply a design failure. If you run them in stealth mode, you might as well revert to the freeform roleplaying experience [I]interspersed with the occasional skill check [/I]you've run oh so successfully all these years. If you don't, you reap all the problems outlined by your OP and in Mearls' own article (as in, break immersion, introduce artificialities, engage players at the wrong level, etc.). Either way, you're better without skill challenges. There, that's my one line advice on how to grok them. Yippee! I beat you in the contest for concision! ;) [/QUOTE]

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