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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maialideth" data-source="post: 9690153" data-attributes="member: 6795301">Sounds like a good call to skip it. If it feels tedious and you are close to ending the session, no one is going to be very creative, and that, in my opinion, is the strength and purpose of skill challenges... allowing the players to be creative beyond what is written on their character sheets and in the rules.When I'm running a skill challenge for a group for the first time, I also tell them that I am going to allow a much higher degree of elasticity with what can be done with a skill, feature, spell etc. than if it was a combat encounter. In combat, spells work as written. In skill challenges, the flavor is much more important. Which reminds me, if a skill challenge is inspired by a scene in a movie or tv show, let the players know exactly what the inspiration is. That way they can more easily, again in my opinion, flavor their actions to fit the theme of the skill challenge.In my group, I ran a skill challenge inspired by the western movie Young Guns, where they were boarded up in a house surrounded by a small army. I don't think any of my players have ever seen that movie (it's from the early '90s), but they immediately grasped the flavor I was going for.</blockquote>