This is the last of six blogs on designing and executing Social Challenges for your party through a blend of role-play and dice.

Social Challenges 1: The Challenge
Social Challenges 2: Social Skills
Social Challenges 3: Design
Social Challenges 4: Execution
Social Challenges 5: Sample Challenges
Social Challenges 6: More Sample Challenges

In this sixth blog, I will present the last two sample Social Challenges from the first blog. But first, a Word of Caution:

A Word of Caution

This system is not for everyone. If you choose to use it, please consider the following:
● Number Crunchers and Thespians. Players accustomed to Diplomacy or Bluff checks every time a character speaks and players who enjoy role-playing without any dice may be disconcerted by the (in)frequency of dice rolling. Discuss

This is the fifth of six blogs I will be presenting on how to design and execute Social Challenges for your party, blending role-play and dice.

Social Challenges 1: The Challenge
Social Challenges 2: Social Skills
Social Challenges 3: Design
Social Challenges 4: Execution
Social Challenges 5: Sample Challenges
Social Challenges 6: More Sample Challenges

In this fifth blog, I will present a few sample Social Challenges. Note that these Social Challenges will be fairly generic. You should tailor your Challenges to the desires and abilities of your party, including benefits tied to your player characters’ back stories and desires. The Social Challenges I include are the four that I included as samples in the first Social Challenges blog.

Social Challenges Template

Here is a template I

This is the fourth of six blogs I will be presenting on how to design and execute Social Challenges for your party, blending role-play and dice.

Social Challenges 1: The Challenge
Social Challenges 2: Social Skills
Social Challenges 3: Design
Social Challenges 4: Execution
Social Challenges 5: Sample Challenges
Social Challenges 6: More Sample Challenges

In this fourth blog, I will describe how to run a Social Encounter that you design.

Role-Playing the Social Challenge

Role-play a social encounter as much as possible. Involve as many PCs as want to join in the discussion. Try not to favor any single player. Encourage all the PCs to speak and act, regardless of their specific social ability (in or out of the game). Here are some role-playing tips for making a Social Challenge a memorable experience:

This is the third of six blogs I will be presenting on how to design and execute Social Challenges for your party, blending role-play and dice.

I have amended this blog slightly because I have changed my approach to duplicity in Social Challenges based on comments I have received.

Social Challenges 1: The Challenge
Social Challenges 2: Social Skills
Social Challenges 3: Design
Social Challenges 4: Execution
Social Challenges 5: Sample Challenges
Social Challenges 6: More Sample Challenges

In this third blog, I will discuss how to design a Social Challenge. There are two aspects to design: the narrative (i.e., the role-play), and the mechanics (i.e., the dice).

Designing the Narrative

A Social Challenge Is Inclusive. The DM should ensure that the challenge has something that will engage all the

This is the second of six blogs I will be presenting on how to design and execute Social Challenges for your party, blending role-play and dice.

Note: I have edited this blog based on the comments of aoirorentsu, below.  I have also changed the discussion on Duplicity based on other comments. Thanks for the great ideas!

Social Challenges 1: The Challenge
Social Challenges 2: Social Skills
Social Challenges 3: Design
Social Challenges 4: Execution
Social Challenges 5: Sample Challenges
Social Challenges 6: More Sample Challenges

In this second blog, I discuss two design flaws when it comes to the primary Skills that govern social challenges. The first flaw is that Bluff and Diplomacy do not appropriately cover the ways that people persuade one another. The second flaw is that Diplomacy