Comments on: Hacking Skill Challenges http://abutterflydreaming.com/2009/01/08/hacking-skill-challenges/ Zen and the Art of Roleplaying Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:43:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Scott http://abutterflydreaming.com/2009/01/08/hacking-skill-challenges/comment-page-1/#comment-898 Scott Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:04:18 +0000 http://abutterflydreaming.com/?p=588#comment-898 They can, yes. This is one of those things that you can adjudicate as GM. If you stick to the three-failures format, then your suggestion is one way to handle it. If you extend the format, you can have each failure cost a healing surge (the easy but long way), or set up an increasing-damage failure consequence, so that the first time a character fails, it's one surge, the second is two surges, the third is unconsciousness, and then they make death saves when their turn comes around. It's definitely off-the-cuff, but it can work. Comments... I suppose I should add a subscription link for that to my sidebar. There is a feed, of course. <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CommentsForAButterflyDreaming" rel="nofollow">This link</a> will take you to it. Edit: Got it on the sidebar now. Thanks. They can, yes. This is one of those things that you can adjudicate as GM. If you stick to the three-failures format, then your suggestion is one way to handle it. If you extend the format, you can have each failure cost a healing surge (the easy but long way), or set up an increasing-damage failure consequence, so that the first time a character fails, it’s one surge, the second is two surges, the third is unconsciousness, and then they make death saves when their turn comes around.

It’s definitely off-the-cuff, but it can work.

Comments… I suppose I should add a subscription link for that to my sidebar. There is a feed, of course. This link will take you to it.

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]]> By: jonathan http://abutterflydreaming.com/2009/01/08/hacking-skill-challenges/comment-page-1/#comment-896 jonathan Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:10:42 +0000 http://abutterflydreaming.com/?p=588#comment-896 moving away from tactical combat, as a breath of fresh air or to accommodate truly huge battles, is something I've been thinking about for a while. For players of 4E, using skill challenges to mitigate this is a good solution - but it also brings to bear an important caveat: can character DEATH occur during a so-called "combat challenge"? Moreover, there would need to be degrees of failure: one failure and you all loose 2 healing surges, two failures and someone goes down (but not dead), three failures and someone dies. How would this, in your mind, be handled? (on a side note: is there a way to subscribe to comments on your blog?) <abbr><em>jonathan´s last blog post: <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheCoreMechanic/~3/506225159/existere-map-of-rpg-blogs-gaming-cons.html" rel="nofollow">Existere - A Map of RPG Blogs & Gaming Cons</a></abbr></em> moving away from tactical combat, as a breath of fresh air or to accommodate truly huge battles, is something I’ve been thinking about for a while. For players of 4E, using skill challenges to mitigate this is a good solution – but it also brings to bear an important caveat: can character DEATH occur during a so-called “combat challenge”? Moreover, there would need to be degrees of failure: one failure and you all loose 2 healing surges, two failures and someone goes down (but not dead), three failures and someone dies. How would this, in your mind, be handled?

(on a side note: is there a way to subscribe to comments on your blog?)

jonathan´s last blog post: Existere – A Map of RPG Blogs & Gaming Cons

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