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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ValhallaGH" data-source="post: 5051142" data-attributes="member: 41187">Skill Challenges sound like the second half of the encounter.  To use a skill challenge:Figure out the sorts of things they can do (search the house, fight the fire, calm the family, paint a picture, whatever will be useful), assign appropriate skills (perception, nature or dungeoneering, diplomacy, Charisma) and a relative difficulty for the tasks (easy, normal, hard).  Attach an overall complexity for how difficult it is to totally succeed versus totally fail (X successes before 3 failures) and you've got the basics ready.Then think about some of the interactions, like successful fire fighting can make it easier to find the children, or a Heal check can be used to save the children if they had begun to succumb to smoke inhalation.  All participants may have to make an Endurance check each cycle or lose a Healing Surge (Easy for the painter and talker, Normal for the firefighter, Hard for the searchers).Finally, decide on the complexity of the challenge(s) to determine how many successes are required before 3 failures to actually beat it.If you want them to succeed at part of it with ease but have the rest of the challenge be very difficult then you can split it up into multiple challenges.  For example, fighting the fire to save the house may be extremely complicated (12 successes before 3 failures) but rescuing the trapped children is merely difficult (5 before 3) and painting a moving picture of the blaze is fairly trivial (4 before 3).The goal is to make it interesting and dramatic while still leaving it up to a combination of dice and skill to solve.Speaking of, the DCs can be gotten from page 42 of DMG 1.  Feel free to ignore the footnote about skills, since it takes the DCs from reasonable to absurdly challenging.  Also, feel free to adjust the DCs to better fit your idea of relative difficulty; note that the Normal column means that a character with Training in the skill and a 10 ability score will suceed on a 10+ (55% of the time).Good LuckP.S. Yes, it would be acceptable.  This is your thread, you can add to the level of detail you're wanting help with as you desire.</blockquote>

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