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<blockquote data-quote="Imaro" data-source="post: 6181213" data-attributes="member: 48965">This pretty much sums up how I've felt about SC's for a while, as well as how I've seen them play out (for the most part) at the table.&nbsp; Now I guess it could be a case of various DM's not getting how to run SC's... but then again if they are that easy to mess up are they really a good tool to use??&nbsp; Anyway, I'll state upfront that I am not really a fan of SC's and I feel that maybe instead of having a structured &quot;skill challenge&quot; mechanic, maybe 5e should instead present a frank discussion and various examples of ways to use skills mechanically to achieve different processes and results in the game *. *This honestly seems to be what many advocates (though not all) of &quot;skill challenges&quot;are doing and makes me wonder... are they really still skill challenges if you disregard the structure and mechanics and are in fact just running skills in a way you want??</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Imaro, post: 6181213, member: 48965"] This pretty much sums up how I've felt about SC's for a while, as well as how I've seen them play out (for the most part) at the table. Now I guess it could be a case of various DM's not getting how to run SC's... but then again if they are that easy to mess up are they really a good tool to use?? Anyway, I'll state upfront that I am not really a fan of SC's and I feel that maybe instead of having a structured "skill challenge" mechanic, maybe 5e should instead present a frank discussion and various examples of ways to use skills mechanically to achieve different processes and results in the game *. *This honestly seems to be what many advocates (though not all) of "skill challenges"are doing and makes me wonder... are they really still skill challenges if you disregard the structure and mechanics and are in fact just running skills in a way you want?? [/QUOTE]

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