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<blockquote data-quote="Just Another User" data-source="post: 4194637" data-attributes="member: 23516">And my answer would be, &quot;How could I know? I'm not a thief, my character is, an expert one, too. HE should know what to do.&quot;Actually, I'm not even sure what do you mean with that.And this would mean that the players will *never* use the most logical skill as first thing in any skill challenge. &quot;OK, the challenge is to open this door so first&nbsp; i'll make a perception, check, followed by an history check and then a knowledge dungeonering check&quot; &quot;why not a thievery check?&quot; &quot;What would be the point to do that?&quot;Extreme and silly example, I know, but do you see the problem? The situation become forced and counter-intuitive, it could be fun the first time, by the third player had developed a routine, first perception check, it is an easy free success (because, come on where perception would not apply?) then it depend on the situation, but history is another good &quot;jolly&quot; skill, or insight, then use the higher skills you have that have a modicum of sense in the situation, then, only as last resort, or to formally conclude the challenge the skill that actually would make sense to use.These are situations where skill challenges don't work well, skill Challenges are for situations where there are multiple skills that can possibly be used, but with traps or locked doors 99 times out of 100 there is one skill that make sense to use.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Just Another User, post: 4194637, member: 23516"] And my answer would be, "How could I know? I'm not a thief, my character is, an expert one, too. HE should know what to do." Actually, I'm not even sure what do you mean with that. And this would mean that the players will *never* use the most logical skill as first thing in any skill challenge. "OK, the challenge is to open this door so first i'll make a perception, check, followed by an history check and then a knowledge dungeonering check" "why not a thievery check?" "What would be the point to do that?" Extreme and silly example, I know, but do you see the problem? The situation become forced and counter-intuitive, it could be fun the first time, by the third player had developed a routine, first perception check, it is an easy free success (because, come on where perception would not apply?) then it depend on the situation, but history is another good "jolly" skill, or insight, then use the higher skills you have that have a modicum of sense in the situation, then, only as last resort, or to formally conclude the challenge the skill that actually would make sense to use. These are situations where skill challenges don't work well, skill Challenges are for situations where there are multiple skills that can possibly be used, but with traps or locked doors 99 times out of 100 there is [B]one[/B] skill that make sense to use. [/QUOTE]

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