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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LostSoul" data-source="post: 5642920" data-attributes="member: 386">This is how skill challenges work - or at least how I use them.  I set the number of successes you need by making a Reaction Roll (or setting one if I already know).  That's the NPC's obstinacy.  I use these kinds of social skill challenges often - my last gave had 5 of them, and no combat.NPCs can still act, like normal.Social interactions are quite complex and if you try to "model" them using some kind of system without player judgement or interpretation I don't know if it'll be successful.  Beware simply matching skill checks to DCs and subtracting HP - that's boring.Look into other games that already do this.  Sorcerer and the games that were designed in its tradition are good ones to check out.</blockquote>