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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lizard" data-source="post: 4113636" data-attributes="member: 1054">One thing which confuses me about this system is, can the skill challenge system merge with the standard encounter system?Lots of people have said things like, "Oh, cool! If he runs into the sewers, he can fight CHUDs!"How does that work in the context of the mechanics? My understanding was that the whole point of skill challenges was to allow everyone to participate and avoid the netrunner/skill monkey problem. The group accumulates successes in a vary abstract way, and the totality of all the rolls is the 'skill encounter'.The way some people are describing it, the abstract skill challenge and the tactical combat system are used concurrently, and I don't see that as solving the problem it was intended to. If the sewer-runner stops to fight dire rats while everyone else twiddles their thumbs, we're back to the same issue. And if he doesn't, a lot of people's enthusiasm for the potential of this system is misplaced. From what I can tell, this is a very abstract system -- there isn't really a gangwar, there aren't really sewers -- those are descriptions of the results of the roll, just as "You have a nasty gash on your shoulder from that orc" is the description of the purely abstract result of an attack roll. The set of rolls/results for a skill challenge, like a combat encounter, take place in their own bubble of space time. It's like a montage scene in a movie.We may need to see more example of actual play.</blockquote>

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