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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Phoenix8008" data-source="post: 4313647" data-attributes="member: 211">I've skimmed through the DMG and found the section on saying "Yes" to player ideas to be a fun idea that I hadn't done enough of in the past possibly. In our game last weekend playing KotS, I got my first taste of deliberately trying this as a GM.Spoilers........Within the town of Winterhaven the PC's heard that Lord Padraig might have an offer for them to clear out the kobold menace in the area. Using an idea I saw in another thread here on the boards, I decided to make a Skill challenge out of getting past the gate guards to speak with the Lord about his proposal.I informed them that they would need 4 successes before 2 failures and gave them a few acceptable skills which would be easiest along with a couple more roundabout ways which would be possible but more difficult. They managed to get 3 successes before accruing any failures when my 10 year old son nearly shouted out "I know! I'll go back out the front town gates and then come running in screaming 'the kobolds are coming! I saw kobolds! Ahhhhhhh!!' " I smiled at him and thought about the believability of this or lack thereof (did he slink off in the middle of this conversation and run out the gates only to turn around and run right back in past guards who had just seen him leave?). But I remembered that section in the DMG and thought to myself 'why not?'. Worst that happens is they get their first failure on the skill check. And that was pretty likely because the dragonborn fighter had a measly little bluff skill. I let him try it though and he rolled an 18 or 19! (Don't remember for sure which) I smiled at the kind fates and told him that he totally pulled it off! The front gates slammed shut in alarm and the inner gate guards they were trying to persuade quickly opened their gates and let the party in to see the Lord about a job to wipe out the kobolds.I still smile when I think about it, and my son really got a huge boost from pulling off the stunt in such a fun and unique way. Just thought I'd share my tale with all of you. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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