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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rafe" data-source="post: 4451513" data-attributes="member: 67395">I'm attempting to run 1-2 skill challenges every level for my group of 6 players, but the last time I ran a skill challenge, it just seemed like 'round-the-table rolling.The situation:  a group of disgruntled refugees splintered off from the main group the PCs were escorting to a safer territory.  The splinter group was headed somewhere the PCs wanted to check out first, but they couldn't leave the main group of refugees.  So in the night, three of them went out to obstruct the main roadway (foothills/craggy pass) to buy time.  I made it a Complexity 3 (8 successes before 3 failures), level 1 challenge with the primary skills being Perception and Nature opening up Athletics, Endurance and Thievery (it was a trap of sorts).As I said, they just went around the table rolling.  It really didn't seem to add much, though I described as best I could the effects of each roll and how it added up to creating the kind of obstacle they wanted... or how a failed roll detracted slightly from what they were looking for.How would you have run this skill challenge?  I'm trying to get an idea for how to run them properly.  I love the idea of skill challenges, but I guess I just don't "get" them.Thanks in advance!</blockquote>