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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scott Christian" data-source="post: 8043845" data-attributes="member: 6901101">I too, am talking about game design and mechanics. If your skill challenges are really not needed, they are just dice rolls to keep people busy, great. But for many tables, skill challenges open quest lines or close quest lines. They allow you to take a shortcut bypassing one, two or three combats or make you have to fight. They decide whether you can stay in a place or not. They even decide if the magic item comes into your possession or if you are sol. Those are all rolls, based on mechanics. The only difference is, they function in the skills department. And granted, the role play may be DM based. But for some tables, what you choose has made a huge difference. Some tables, race means nothing, but background offers a lot of opportunities for gameplay. Other tables it may be the opposite. And in some tables, none of it matters. All the races and professions and economic classes hold hands and are happy together. There is no right or wrong. But to say it doesn't matter means the table, and most importantly, the DM, has decided not to pay attention to it.</blockquote>