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[Burnside]

And here I thought it was cool to see some significant skill challenges in an adventure. This thread has kind of soured that mood...

It's what we do.

 

[darjr]

The second adventure was written by Rich Lescouflair! Writer of Esper Genesis!

 

[Bolares]

Your players ask for skill checks?

Mostly inside a skill challenge. But sometimes they do in other parts of the game. I understand that they "shouldn't", but I'm not gonna keep correcting them when they say "I wanna roll for perception to search the room" every time they do it...

 

[Bolares]

Is “skill challenge” now a much more generic term?

They kind of are... It's been more than 10 years since they were part of any oficial game design, so the players that keep using them are mostly drawing inspiration from that piece of game design and adjusting it to their table.

 

[Jer]

Mostly inside a skill challenge. But sometimes they do in other parts of the game. I understand that they "shouldn't", but I'm not gonna keep correcting them when they say "I wanna roll for perception to search the room" every time they do it...

Who says they "shouldn't"? If it works for your table it works for your table. The idea that there's some "approved" way to run a game and we should all strive to attain that as DMs causes people to stress out. And it's just not true - every table is different and every group needs to do what works for them.

 

[Bolares]

Who says they "shouldn't"? If it works for your table it works for your table. The idea that there's some "approved" way to run a game and we should all strive to attain that as DMs causes people to stress out. And it's just not true - every table is different and every group needs to do what works for them.

Well, that's why I wrote "shouldn't" instead of shouldn't. The game says that, but I think it's not really pratical to apply all the time...

 

[CritHitBrit]

I've made some free battle maps for Spelljammer Academy adventure for your personal use - download on the blog here:

Tips on running Spelljammer Academy, the first 5E Spelljammer adventure to be released by WotC

Spoiler alert! This article discusses the new Spelljammer adventures from WotC in detail, so any player cadets reading this may want to turn their ships now before we head into the depths of Wildspace spoiler territory. TL;DR; In a rush? This article covers 4 key tips for DMs running

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I've also playtested the adventure and written up my thoughts and 4 Tips for DMs if you are going to run it in the same article and will update as the new adventures are released.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

Mostly inside a skill challenge. But sometimes they do in other parts of the game. I understand that they "shouldn't", but I'm not gonna keep correcting them when they say "I wanna roll for perception to search the room" every time they do it...

I always look at it this way... as long as I understand what they are trying to do in game I don't care how they say it

 

[darjr]

Rich has answered a few questions on Facebook about the adventure.

 

[Burnside]

Rich has answered a few questions on Facebook about the adventure.

Based on his comment, it does seem like he intended some of the skill challenges and ship battle stuff to be more fleshed out and detailed, but it got edited out.