SCs: Tailored to the party?

[Skywalker]

DMG2 states: "Know what skills your player character's are good at, and tailor your challenges to those skills."

I think you are reading too much into that statement. Its no different from saying that you should tailor a combat to the PCs.

 

[Saeviomagy]

If you want them to discover information, you may think the most obvious way would be to ask around on the streets, using Bluff, Diplomacy, Insight, Intimidate, and Streetwise. However, when you look at your PCs and they have good Arcana, History, Nature, and Religion, then instead you could design a skill challenge that allows them to find this information by researching with those skills.

Surely it's easier just to make a skill challenge that just covers the whole lot? I mean isn't part of the point of skill challenges supposed to be that you get to choose how you go about doing things?