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<blockquote data-quote="wayne62682" data-source="post: 5216149" data-attributes="member: 40455">What I always hated about skill challenges is twofold:1) If you suck at a particular skill, you aren't going to want to use it for fear of causing a failure, especially in RAW where it's three strikes and you're out.&nbsp; So depending on the challenge, not everyone is GOING to have an ability that's worth using.&nbsp; If I'm the big, tough fighter I'm not going to be participating in a diplomatic skill challenge, and I'm not going to use Intimidate because A) half the time it'll auto fail, and B) I don't want to threaten someone we're trying to get information out of if they're friendly2) MANY, many DMs enforce this nonsense where you HAVE to participate in the skill challenge, or they punish you for it, therefore you're basically forced to roll something that won't succeed and chalk up a failure for the group.&nbsp; It hurts the group as a whole because you aren't given the option to not participate, or else you get punished for it, but when you do participate you're hurting the group's chances of winning.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wayne62682, post: 5216149, member: 40455"] What I always hated about skill challenges is twofold: 1) If you suck at a particular skill, you aren't going to want to use it for fear of causing a failure, especially in RAW where it's three strikes and you're out. So depending on the challenge, not everyone is GOING to have an ability that's worth using. If I'm the big, tough fighter I'm not going to be participating in a diplomatic skill challenge, and I'm not going to use Intimidate because A) half the time it'll auto fail, and B) I don't want to threaten someone we're trying to get information out of if they're friendly 2) MANY, many DMs enforce this nonsense where you HAVE to participate in the skill challenge, or they punish you for it, therefore you're basically forced to roll something that won't succeed and chalk up a failure for the group. It hurts the group as a whole because you aren't given the option to not participate, or else you get punished for it, but when you do participate you're hurting the group's chances of winning. [/QUOTE]

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