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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Horatio" data-source="post: 4886220" data-attributes="member: 63829">Here's one of mines.I usualy preapre a few "opportunity" skill challenges - optional, "unlocked" by a certain actions made by the characters. So here it goes: In a village, the party rogue decided to look around the village to find something interesting (they were trying to undermine certain corrupted noble's operations and thought he might have something going in this village) and told me he's using his street savvy (aka streetwise), rolling 22 which was enough to get this information (among other things, not pointed out) - people talking about some landslide in nearby hills opening some sort of cave or something. Meanwhile, the swordmage were at the local grocer, shopping for some general adventuring gear. The shopkeeper, chatting with the swordmage, mentioned something about more people coming and ordering more goods, calling for an insight roll (which was successfull) I told the swordmage, that it was not only a general chat, but that was a reason that he mentioned the shipment. Not wanting to pass the opportunity, the swordmage indeed asked what's so special about it. "Well, shovels. Now that we can expect the treasure hunters...". Further questioning leading to the revelation of the (supposedly) tomb of one of the heroes of old - Conrad the Fender. Who was burried (according to the legens) with his famous armor. (1st success). Getting back together, the group piled all information they got (the rogue wasn't the onnly one streetwising) and decided to investigate further. The wizard asked if the name rings a bell and rolled history, asking if 26 is enough. Enough it was and I told him, that yes, deeds of said hero are well documented as is his armor. He wasn't originaly from this area. He spent his adventuring carriere in Tarengar (a kingdom east from their current location) and was supposed to return into his hometown of Westhaven (name unknown to all) after retirement. Though he never got there. (2nd success). Now they all asked themselves if they know the name Westhaven or something similar. (3 "solutions" were possible now - either diplomacy, hard check, remembering about the fact that some diplomats (a special sort....) use to call the port Highcross byt the nickname West haven, or history again, hard chceck, in the dark ages, the name of Highcross was Westhaven, or finally religion, hard check, pointing out that the name was originally Vesta's haven, named after goddes Vesta, who's church is long forgotten, but was supposed to be around the location of today's Highcross). 2 heroes passed the checks (the warlord with diplomacy, the wizard with religion) (3rd success). Now they knew, that Conrad indeed could travel through these lands and thus could actually be buried here. But where exactly? Treasure hunters are now on the way and we want to be there first! Ok, time for the information gathering again. Where the rumors about the cave started? Streetwise time! (1st failure, as noone rolled high enough or came up with something elaborate enough to justify a bonus). Dead end? Not so fast! Our clever ranger pointed out, that they were talking about landslide. Whcih is not a common event. Using his knowledge about nature and a map of surrounding areas, he tried to determine, where said landslides might be possible (as I did not expect his, I had to quickly decide and I went with moderate to high difficulty). After a very lucky roll, I gave him 3 possible locations. (4th success) Now the warlord asked, if something special is known about Conrad's legendary armor - what the legends tell us. Rolling history (and succeeding), I told him, that the armor was called lifegiving in some legends. (5th success) Wizards turn - do I know what "lifegiving" might be? - rolling arcana and (they were unnaturally lucky that day) succeeded again. So I told them, that said "ability" not only protects the wearer against negative energies, but boosts the lifeforce of nearby living allies. Now the ranger again (frequently coming with interesting ideas or problem solutions) got another idea - which fields in the nearby areas have the best yield? You know - buried underground, boosting life nearby .... . As I really like this kind of thinking, I let them make an (easy) streetwise chceck to gather gossips from village farmers which of their "competition" has best quality / quantity. (6th and final success). Now they just picked the (possible) landslide location closest to the "best crop farmer". Skill challenge done.</blockquote>

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