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Inq. of the Week: Challenging Skills
On the occasion of E3, we were all “video-gamey” and asked who won the battle for the public’s digital hearts by wielding the most dreaded weapon of all: the multimedia presentation. The Xbox 360...
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Overt vs. Covert Skill Challenges
As the maintainer of the (now massive) Skill Challenge feature, I read quite a lot about skill challenges, no matter if they’re positive, negative, or somewhere in between. I think SCs can mostly be...
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What? You want to Sleep here?
(New Feature, “Chatty’s What if” explores a less-conventional idea, to see where it will lead, enjoy!) What if a DM judged that his playing group could use a little object lesson in resource and risk...
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Air War: A Skill Challenge
Last weekend, as part of the finale to a major plot arc in my game, I wanted to make a skill challenge to represent a fleet of airships breaking through the enemy’s air forces in order to get the party...
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Antagonistic Viziers and Fleeing Pickpockets
There’s been an awful lot of digital ink spilled on many 4E subjects, but I can’t seem to find anything about skill challenges. Har har. But seriously, I know what you’re thinking: “For crying out...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Skills
I’m trying a new experiment today, taking a recent topic and providing links to some articles in our extensive archives (over 5 years has produced over 2000 posts). If you enjoy this kind of article,...
View ArticleCritical Hits Podcast #31: Quinn Murphy and Mike Shea on Skill Challenges
Mike Shea of Sly Flourish talks to Quinn Murphy of At-Will about skill challenges. Learn the top 3 tips for effective skill challenges. Get the hot button questions answered like when to say or hide...
View ArticleSkill Challenges in 5th Edition D&D
Skill challenges were the best kept secret of 4e D&D. They were awesome, but they were so poorly explained that it caused a lot of confusion. Not only that, it took the designers two whole errata...
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