Skill Challenge are one of the great difficulties for the whole group in the 4th. As I’m starting to follow you now, I hope read more about that! Thanks!

Swordgleam, my next skill challenge will be a social one, they seem more interesting and a lot more fun to play. The roleplaying can really shine there….

Also, I find it helps not to set down particular skills. If you call out History, Endurance, and Nature specifically, people will naturally try to use those, but if you don’t, they’re more likely to try to find ways of using the skills they’re good at. This sometimes leads to interesting moments.

Also one thing, like Tommi was alluding too, players shouldn’t just be rattling off their best skills. They should pick and skill and explain how they’re using it. Once we (the players) started doing that, the skills challenges got really awesome and fun!

I don’t let my guys just say “I rolled a 15 for intimidate” without telling me what their character is doing that’s intimidating, but your group might be different.

And then I went around the table, and the players told me what skill check they were making as part of the challenge, I described what a success meant, and a failure and we took it from there…

Did the players tell what their character was actually doing, or what the situation looked like, or anything else, or was it just the players rattling off their characters’ best skills?