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<blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 5065980" data-attributes="member: 2011">You do understand that there are actually turns in a Skill Challenge, correct?Hogging the spotlight is not the issue because each player waits his turn.If you are not doing turns, then you are not doing a Skill Challenge as per the rules.If you are doing turns, then yes, you are breaking up the flow. You could be having a great conversation between the Paladin and the Cleric and the Mayor and on the Wizard's turn, the conversation stops as he does a History check and is forced to contribute to the roleplaying or is forced to minimally roll the dice and try to figure something out. What if on his turn he wants to do his History check, but doesn't want to relate that information in front of the Mayor? You just broke the flow in order to supply History information to the player of the Wizard.By definition, skill challenges break the flow because they force the flow into a linear turn by turn encounter. Those players who want to speak are forced to wait their turn and those players who want to sit back and watch are forced to take their turn. And, everyone is forced to roll dice.How can you not consider these types of rules artificial and contrived, as opposed to naturally flowing and spontaneous? It changes roleplaying to rollplaying.Rules on roleplaying in general do not work. The very concept of roleplaying isn't to roll dice, it's to interact in real time. Dice rolls should only be involved when the DM decides that the outcome of the result should be random as opposed to just specified by the DM.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="KarinsDad, post: 5065980, member: 2011"] You do understand that there are actually turns in a Skill Challenge, correct? Hogging the spotlight is not the issue because each player waits his turn. If you are not doing turns, then you are not doing a Skill Challenge as per the rules. If you are doing turns, then yes, you are breaking up the flow. You could be having a great conversation between the Paladin and the Cleric and the Mayor and on the Wizard's turn, the conversation stops as he does a History check and is forced to contribute to the roleplaying or is forced to minimally roll the dice and try to figure something out. What if on his turn he wants to do his History check, but doesn't want to relate that information in front of the Mayor? You just broke the flow in order to supply History information to the player of the Wizard. By definition, skill challenges break the flow because they force the flow into a linear turn by turn encounter. Those players who want to speak are forced to wait their turn and those players who want to sit back and watch are forced to take their turn. And, everyone is forced to roll dice. How can you not consider these types of rules artificial and contrived, as opposed to naturally flowing and spontaneous? It changes roleplaying to rollplaying. Rules on roleplaying in general do not work. The very concept of roleplaying isn't to roll dice, it's to interact in real time. Dice rolls should only be involved when the DM decides that the outcome of the result should be random as opposed to just specified by the DM. [/QUOTE]

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