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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5705872" data-attributes="member: 82106">Narrative, narrative is the key. Create a story with your skill challenge. It has to go from here to there in some sort of conceptual space with bumps and diversions and obstacles along the way, and meaningful choices for the PCs to make. An SC should be a bit like an adventure in miniature.Think about a desert trek. You could do a survival skill challenge where the PCs make lots of endurance checks and what not, but if you give it a beginning, a middle, and an end, now it becomes a story, with a plot and drama. The beginning relies on properly preparing, rolls to get a good map, to learn rumors, to hire the right guide, get the best gear, etc. The middle has your endurance and navigation and such, and then you get to the end, where something happens to resolve the story, the PCs avoid the bandits, find the cave, come to the oasis and don't drink the poison water, etc.</blockquote>