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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 6012028" data-attributes="member: 2525">I suggest you put this decision on the PCs and not the DM.Tell them the situation, tell them it's a skill challenge, and ask them what they'd like to do.Give them the freedom to come up with a plan, and the freedom to choose which skills to use to accomplish that plan.  Then you react to what they do, and make decisions based roughly on 1) That makes perfect sense (+2 to the roll), or 2) OK that might work (normal roll), or 3) Uh, hmmm, that doesn't seem likely to succeed (-2 to the roll), and set a DC for the different kinds of tasks, and how many total successes are needed vs. failures, and then see if they succeed at it.The consequences for failure are also in your control, of course.</blockquote>