Gnomaks: переводы

→Know what skills your player characters are trained in, and feature those skills heavily in the challenge. If you use skills the PCs aren't trained in, assign easy DCs. See "Allow a Variety of Options" on page 85 for more about selecting skills.

→CLOSING THE PORTAL
—Shawn Mervin. from Dungeon Delve

→The rest of this chapter includes examples - mostly drawn from published adventures - that illustrate the liner techniques of skill challenge design.

→Skill challenges examples

→TIME FRAME

→The following section highlights some key points about designing and running skill challenges. including a short example to illustrate each point.

→Skill challenges in depth

→When you're planning a skill challenge. think of ways that characters might use skills to achieve the goal of the challenge. Try to come up with as many as seven useful skills (either primary or secondary) — or about as many skills as there are characters in your party, plus two.

→SKILL CHECK DIFFICULTY CLASS BY LEVEL
Level 1st-3rd | 4th-6th | 7th-9th | 10th-12th | 13th-15th |16th-18th | 19th-21st | 22nd-24th | 25th-27th | 28th-30th
Easy 5 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 14 | 16 | 17 | 19
Moderate 10 | 12 | 14 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 22 | 24 | 26 | 28
Hard 15 | 17 | 19 | 21 | 23 | 25 | 27 | 29 | 31 | 33

→A skill challenge's level determines the DC of the skill checks involved. As a general rule, set the challenge's level to the same level as the player characters, and set most of the DCs in the challenge to moderate difficulty. If you use mostly easy DCs, you're probably creating a lower-level challenge, and if you use mostly hard DCs, you're creating a higher-level challenge.

→The complexity of a skill challenge determines the number of successful checks the characters must accumulate before failing three checks. In combination with the challenge's level, it also determines how hard the challenge is for the characters to overcome and the XP award they receive for completing it.

→To deal with a skill challenge, the player characters make skill checks to accumulate a number of successful skill uses before they rack up 3 failures.

→Some of the material in this chapter originally appeared in the virtual pages of Dungeon Magazine at www.dndinsider.com . "Ruling Skill Challenges" is a regular feature in Dungeon, highlighting advice and examples far DMs wanting to make better use of skill challenges in their games.

→Skill Challenge Examples: A series of examples round out the chapter

→Skill Challenges in Depth: This section highlights five key elements of successful skill challenges: time frames, allowing a variety of options, preparing for failure, progressive challenges, and branching challenges.

→This chapter supplements the material in the Dungeon Master's Guide that introduces the rules for skill challenges. The start of the chapter repeats the fundamental rules for creating and running skill challenges, since they've been updated since the first printing of the DMG. From there, the chapter continues with lengthy advice for creating skill challenges that are engaging and exciting for every player at the table.

→They should never replace the roleplaying, puzzling, and ingenuity that go into players' approach to those situations, but they place that effort into a defined rules structure so you can more easily adjudicate them and players can more easily understand the options available to them.

→SKILL CHALLENGES are a versatile tool in your DM's toolbox, well suited to modeling a wide variety of tasks the player characters might undertake in the course of an adventure. From disabling a complex trap to negotiating peace between warring nations, skill challenges take complex activities and structure them into a simple framework of skill checks.

→Trigger
The trap is a complexity 2 skill challenge (6 successes before 3 failures) that requires a DC 12 Thievery check for each success. With each failed check, the trap makes the following attack. Each attempt to disable a lock takes a standard action. With each success or failure, another attempt to disable a lock mast be made before the end of the attempting creature's next turn. or a failure in the challenge is accrued. On the third failure all the locks reset. requiring the skill challenge to be performed anew, but ending the immediate threat.

→Creating Movement