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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LostSoul" data-source="post: 6061523" data-attributes="member: 386">I think Skill Challenges can help a DM be impartial.  The last one I ran had a PC trying to sneak around town gathering victims for sacrifice.  I didn't have a map or know where are the people in town were, so the abstract "X successes before 3 failures" helped to determine when the conflict was resolved without any bias.Skill Challenges have Levels.  From the Level you can determine the appropriate DC or Defence (Level + 14 for AC and Level + 12 for Fort/Ref/Will).  So if, in a Level 8 Skill Challenge, a rock is tumbling at the Wizard and he decides to blast it out of the way with Thunderwave, the Defence is 20.</blockquote>