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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9576114" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Very, very loose ideas, so...not a lot more than an abstract wish, but still technically more?That is, my notions are as follows.<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">You can convert at least most regular combats to skirmishes by "flattening" it--presumably, treating each entity as an obstacle that must be matched by an attack roll. I would suspect that minions could be clumped together as a single obstacle; conversely, a dangerous elite or solo might require multiple successes to defeat via skirmish.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Both enemy powers and player powers feed into these considerations. PCs can be assumed to benefit from Encounter powers, for example, so those would be treated as being already factored in.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Keep the number of rolls per player small. No more than 3, and preferably only 1. These need to be snappy--unless it would be a grave loss, always take the simpler option for figuring things out or resolving them. (Edit: Grave loss at a design level, to be clear. We don't want to be forcing players to choose between "fast, but failing" vs "successful, but plodding".)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Your role and/or power source may give you a leg up. Frex: a Skirmish against a single big nasty Solo might mean a Defender can take a penalty to her Skirmish roll (say, -2) in order to give everyone else a +2, because the Solo is Marked and thus can't focus as hard on them. Likewise, in a fight against Undead, Clerics in particular and maybe divine characters in general might get +2 to their rolls.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Daily powers or consumable items can be expended for some kind of benefit, probably invented by the DM but with Page 42-style guidance for examples of things that are generally worth doing. No more than one such benefit per person though; KISS is our watchword.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">A single failed roll doesn't necessarily mean the skirmish has failed, just that it was very rough for that participant. It might cost you a Healing Surge; and if you failed badly (e.g. natural 1), you might have to roll again to avoid more long-lasting harm (e.g. a condition or the like.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The skirmish DC depends (naturally!) on the level of the enemies present in it.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Some fights are not entirely appropriate for being implemented as skirmishes, so DMs should be forewarned that these rules are not meant to provide a rich tactical experience, but rather to ensure that even "two goblins in a hallway" encounters still have teeth but aren't agonizingly slow to deal with. You probably could play a game using only Skirmishes, but I think you'd be missing out.</li> </ol>Much of this was more gut feeling prior to actually writing it all out here, hence why I say it wasn't just a wish...but wasn't a lot more than one either.</blockquote>

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