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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 4990431" data-attributes="member: 82106">Yeah, SCs are definitely an art form. I think the best ones feel very organic and like "just roleplaying". Don't feel too constrained by the default SC rules either. They're OK as a starting point, but you can go in a lot of possible directions with an SC.Sometimes its better to break something up into more than one SC too. As a rule of thumb an SC (or any other "scene" in the game) should involve one and only one "fork" in the plot. A lot of people try to create an SC where several things MUST happen in order for the story to logically progress in a certain direction, but because SCs accumulate die rolls this often won't make sense. In other words if figuring out a mystery requires finding some tracks and figuring out what made them it doesn't make sense if the PCs pass 100 monster knowledge checks if nobody actually sees the tracks. You can have perception unlock a use of arcana and have it be one SC but some of these situations are better modeled as multiple SCs so that if nobody finds the tracks, then the plot goes in some other direction.</blockquote>