New Posts For Thread: Skill Challenges, How have you handled them?http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75854/19397178/Skill_Challenges,_How_have_you_handled_themI'm looking for some feedback from DMs who have run the various LFR modules on how they handle skill challenges. I.E what do you tell the players, what don't you tell the players, how do you usually give hints, etc.Which is not exactly how the skill challenge should be run. You are making a narrative assumption, which you yourself already concludes is wrong. It could have been made clearer, but the assumption is that if just the stealthy PC makes that Stealth chttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75854/19397178/Skill_Challenges,_How_have_you_handled_them?post_id=329852826#329852826Which is not exactly how the skill challenge should be run. You are making a narrative assumption, which you yourself already concludes is wrong. It could have been made clearer, but the assumption is that if just the stealthy PC makes that Stealth cTue, 04 Aug 2009 03:23:05 -0500Look at a concrete problem and apply our skills to that problem rather than creating a problem in order to justify the use of our best skills.Examine our party's weaknesses as it pertains to that problem and try to find ways to mitigate them rather thttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75854/19397178/Skill_Challenges,_How_have_you_handled_them?post_id=329852818#329852818Look at a concrete problem and apply our skills to that problem rather than creating a problem in order to justify the use of our best skills.Examine our party's weaknesses as it pertains to that problem and try to find ways to mitigate them rather tMon, 03 Aug 2009 23:26:46 -0500Here is a curious thing - if in your life you were presented with a real complex problem and there were 5 or 6 people present each with a different array of strengths what would you do?The answer is typically (in an effective group) play to the strenhttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75854/19397178/Skill_Challenges,_How_have_you_handled_them?post_id=329852794#329852794Here is a curious thing - if in your life you were presented with a real complex problem and there were 5 or 6 people present each with a different array of strengths what would you do?The answer is typically (in an effective group) play to the strenMon, 03 Aug 2009 08:58:46 -0500I've become pretty convinced that using the geometric mean approximation (see here) (weakly) underestimates the true probability of succeeding at the skill challenge: the answer you get with the geometric mean approximation can never be higher than thttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75854/19397178/Skill_Challenges,_How_have_you_handled_them?post_id=329852694#329852694I've become pretty convinced that using the geometric mean approximation (see here) (weakly) underestimates the true probability of succeeding at the skill challenge: the answer you get with the geometric mean approximation can never be higher than tThu, 30 Jul 2009 23:45:00 -0500My most common array, pre-racial bumps, is 17, 14, 14, 10, 10, 8This lets you get a good primary, a pretty good secondary, and still a +2 in the "off" defense.http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75854/19397178/Skill_Challenges,_How_have_you_handled_them?post_id=329852482#329852482My most common array, pre-racial bumps, is 17, 14, 14, 10, 10, 8This lets you get a good primary, a pretty good secondary, and still a +2 in the "off" defense.Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:26:26 -0500