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Chaosforge 4e PBF - OOC
Malek Deneith:
It's kind of hard to tell when they are called by THE RULES, because it's kind of a "when GM feels there should be one" kind of thing. To give practical examples one old, old adventure I run in the past had a Skill Challenge when PCs met with an undead knight that was not an evil creature but tad paranoid on account of being stuck for ages in monster infested ruins, and involved calming trying to calm him down to be able to talk to him rather than fight. So a kind of thing that could as well be done with some RP and/or a Diplomacy roll.
The skill challenge coming up in this adventure that I mentioned was supposed to represent the "trials" of the non-monster kind (bad weather mostly) faced during the journey. It also is quite badly written IMHO *and* failing rolls on most of it resulted in loss of healing surges which is flat-out dumb.
And yeah you're right those things can be handled otherwise with a bit of creativity - that's kind of the point that I want to bypass this shit wherever I can in favour of letting it resolve via plot, random encounters or straight up skill checks. I just figured that I'd be a) transparent on me deciding to go that way about it and b) kind of show off/explain before defenstrating that part of the rules, seeing as this game is a bit of a learnign experience for about half of the party.
LuckyDee:
--- Quote from: Malek Deneith on February 27, 2014, 12:16 ---And yeah you're right those things can be handled otherwise with a bit of creativity - that's kind of the point that I want to bypass this shit wherever I can in favour of letting it resolve via plot, random encounters or straight up skill checks. I just figured that I'd be a) transparent on me deciding to go that way about it and b) kind of show off/explain before defenstrating that part of the rules, seeing as this game is a bit of a learnign experience for about half of the party.
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In your previous post, I interpreted "Making the journey a Skill Challenge is a dumb idea, so we'll just skip the journey", which would be a shame. It seems we are on the same level anyhow. So yeah, go for it.
Malek Deneith:
For the record the Warden will follow you to meet up with Isirius so feel free to push the reunion further in absence of my posts (seeing as I'll be going to sleep soon).
slave:
--- Quote from: Malek Deneith on February 27, 2014, 11:56 ---As for the ice scepter itself it is an actual usable magical item - look for it under rods section to see what it does.
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By "under the rods section", do you mean this screen?
I can't find it there, so perhaps my CB is a bit broken (had to reinstall it to get the houserules working) or maybe you meant something else.
thelaptop:
Eh, it's a PBF, so it's oodles slower than real-life interactoin for role-playing.
If skill challenges are going to turn into some kind of combat lite mode, perhaps it is fine if we do away with it.
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