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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JamesonCourage" data-source="post: 6184297" data-attributes="member: 6668292">Nice, you made the thread! I want to put my Shadowfell Portal skill challenge here, but that was my first session, so I don't know all the details. As I play more, I'll transfer some interesting skill challenges over.As far as the Shadowfell Portal, the PCs had just killed a necromancer that was doing some sort of dark magic with a portal to the Shadowfell (they were level 1). Upon the necromancer's death, the portal began to go out of control, and it was there job to shut it down. Since I don't remember all the details, I'll mention some stuff that stood out:(1) The Wizard using Arcana to learn about the portal successfully.(2) The Wizard using Dungeoneering to spot how to collapse part of the cave ceiling onto the portal, slowing it down and stopping any creatures that might come through it.(3) The Fighter throwing his warhammer at the ceiling with Athletics, bringing down rocks onto the portal to damage it (as it was solidifying) and hurting any creatures on the other side.(4) The Fighter using Intimidate to scare any creatures thinking about coming through, stalling them from coming into his world until the others could control the portal.(5) The Fighter using Endurance (and an advantage) stand over the Monk, absorbing the necrotic energy that had dropped her (reversing a failure and bringing her back into the skill challenge and out of dying).(6) The Warpriest (and Ordained Priest) using Religion to pray to The Raven Queen, directly asking for her intervention against the Shadowfell portal. The check failed, and he felt the very Evil presence of another god suppressing his ties to The Raven Queen until the portal was closed.(7) The Warpriest using Heal to help smooth out wounds the party was taking from the necrotic energy of the Shadowfell portal, as he was out of healing spells.(8) The Monk using an encounter power to fly at and attack the portal with an Athletics check, only making the check because I gave her a +4 for the encounter power (though she dropped to dying right after this check, due to the Warpriest's failure, above).(9) The Monk using Thievery to "disable" the damaged portal, much like she would disable a magical trap, ending the skill challenge.There were some other uses in there, but this one stood out to me because it felt very tense, the players were very invested, and it was generally just pretty fun. Sorry I don't remember more of the specifics, but I hope that it helps kick off other people posting in the thread, if nothing else. Thanks for starting the thread (can't XP again so soon yet).</blockquote>

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