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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mneme" data-source="post: 5373194" data-attributes="member: 59248">I'm not sure why you're making this a skill challenge at all, actually.  It sounds like you've got an NPC (a magic door) with some basic dialogue choices.  RP scenes are perfectly fine; sketch out the character's motivations, likes/dislikes, knowedge, and resources (and mabye some DCs for things they may or may not reveal, or a few scripted answers as you have above) and call it a day.But as far as skill challenges go, the best approach is to start with the story and only pull the mechanics in after:1. What are the characters trying to accomplish?2. What stands in their way (and how can they overcome these)? -- from here you get the key skills.3. After they've dealt with the first set, what -else- stands in their way? --most skill challenges shouldn't be "flat", with all options and challenges immediately apparent; instead they should be divided into "rooms" where the first set of successes unlock other ways to proceed and so on, thus giving the challenge a comprehensible story; repeat 3 and 2 as necessary.4. Why is there a chance of failure, and what does it entail? (from here, you get the storyline behind the failure conditions, how likely they should be (how much success you need), and a guideline if you need to use a non-standard failure condition (the golem challenge in Dragon, or an "x rounds" race) or if it makes sense to make some skills erase a failure on success.</blockquote>

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