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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 6185123" data-attributes="member: 20323">[MENTION=6678017]Trit One-Ear[/MENTION] Yes it's in the RC, page 160.Paraphrasing: Skill challenges of complexity 3+ should have ways for the adventurers to gain an advantage, something to help them remove an accumulated failure or gain a success more easily. They recommend 2 advantages for complexity 3; 4 advantages for complexity 4; and 6 advantages for complexity 5. (Personally I find that a touch excessive with the corrected DC table). The DM can either determine which advantages are available in the context of the skill challenge in advance, or let the players' creative skill use determine when advantages comes into play.Examples from the RC include:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Success vs. hard DC counts as 2 successes</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Success vs. hard DC removes a failure instead of adding a success</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Success vs. easy DC counts as a success</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Allow repetition of same skill check at moderate DC to gain a success</li> </ul>Personally, I also use these as advantages:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Allow a group skill check at moderate DC to gain a success</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Grant an auto-success with a non-skill/special action</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Provide special "DM only" insight into skill challenge</li> </ul>Personally, I think of it more as a guideline (along with the rest of the skill challenge rules). Also, I frequently deviate from the RAW skill challenge rules because I find them insufficient to handle a wide array of scenarios with enough interesting options and twists to keep players engaged. So while I appreciate the skeleton rules framework they provide, I realize they are more of a proto-multi-tool, and not an actual multi-tool. IOW any skill challenges I make generally involve a considerable amount of work on my part, more so than prepping a combat.</blockquote>

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