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→In the example on the previous page. the dialogue was compressed for the sake of brevity. When this skill challenge plays out in the context of the langer adventure it's a part of, each check making up the challenge might be separated from the others by hours of game time.

→Think about how long it should take the party to resolve the skill challenge. If your answer can be measured in minutes, you might be looking at a simple skill check. When you design a skill challenge to cover a day or a week of effort. you open it up to a wide variety of individual hurdles within the challenge as a whole and a broader range of skills.

→A good skill challenge consists of a number of different incremental tasks that combine for a fun encounter. It isn't enough to pull different skills into the challenge. The players should feel as though their characters have a lot of options and important decisions. Otherwise, a skill challenge turns into a boring series of die rolls.

→This piece of advice is similar to the second rule, but there's an important distinction here. It isn't enough to pick a wide variety of skills. You need to create a broad range of subchallenges and obstacles within a challenge.

→The DMG tells you to mix up artillery, soldiers, and the other monster roles in your combat encounters. A mix of beasties makes for a fun fight because it varies the challenge and lets you throw a broad array
of abilities at the PCs. Every character has a chance to shine, and the party has to act as a team to answer each threat the monsters pose. Everyone has the same bask goal (blast the monsters). but each character achieves that goal in different ways.

→3. As in a combat encounter, a variety of options makes a skill challenge compelling.

→The characters who excel at those skills make their checks while everyone else hangs back, reluctant to make their own checks because they don't want to be the reason that the group fails the challenge. If your potential skill challenge has a similar bottleneck - in which only one skill does the heavy lifting for the challenge - you need to rethink the challenge.

→At first blush, the answer seems like yes. The party has to work as a group to clear the rubble. Athletics and Dungeoneering seem like the perfect skills to measure the PCs success. Yet in play, such a skill
challenge is boring.

→A skill challenge is a lot more than a fancy extended skill check. The best ones embrace improvisation and a broad range of skills and abilities. Let's say the characters are trapped in a dungeon when the exit collapses. Is digging their way out a skill challenge?

→If there's only one specific, scripted path to success, you've lost what makes D&D fun. When you build a skill challenge, be prepared for it to head in a direction you didn't anticipate or for the party to fail
utterly. That way. the game moves on regardless of what happens with the challenge.

→A quick combat encounter with a group of halfling thieves interrupts the challenge briefly, but it continues along these lines when the combat is over, with all characters contributing their strengths to the completion of the challenge.

→DM (marking down the group's first failure): Well, you find some people to ask -unfortunately, they're a group of thieves in the middle of a crime, and they're not too happy about being interrupted. Why don't you all roll initiative?

→Chenna: Surely more people saw it come this way, then. Can I use Streetwise to find out?
DM: Sure.
Chenna: Oh no! A 1! Well, that gives me a 9.

→DM (marking a fifth success): OK, you head down the stairs in the direction the thing came from, and it looks like the trail's gone cold. But then Eglath points out a pair of feet sticking out from a dark corner - maybe another one of the demon's victims.

→Aelar: Well, then I'll keep searching and see if I can find that trail.
Eglath: I've got a good Perception, too. I'll assist.
DM: OK, another Perception check?
Aelar: Only a 13.
Eglath: You get +2 from me.

→Baredd: The five? Like it was hunting for the five of us?
DM: Maybe. Make an Insight check.
Baredd: Ugh, only a 10.
DM (marking a fourth success): Good enough. It's looking like someone summoned this thing to hunt for you, and maybe you can follow its trail back to whoever summoned it.

→DM (marking a third success): Well, everyone here knows about as much as you do about where it came from - they point to the door it came in through. But one woman was standing near the door when it came in - she was the first to raise the alarm - and she says that she heard it whispering as it approached. Something about hunting for "the five."

→Aelar: With my keen elven eyes, I get a 17.
DM (marking a second success): Yes, you see a weird-looking tuft of fur that it left behind, but when you breathe on it, it dissolves into mist.
Chenna: I'd like to talk to the bystanders, and see if any of them know where it came from. How about a Diplomacy check - a 13.

→DM (marking down a success for the characters): OK, you know that the creature was some sort of demon, not native to the world. It was probably summoned here.
Aelar: Can I look around and see if I can tell which way it came?
DM: Sure, make a Perception check.

→DM:You're left with the last misty remnants of the demonic creature's corpse and a handful of frightened witnesses. "What was that thing." someone asks, "and where did it come from?"