Skill Challenge Variant: Skill Combat
Posted in Rules on June 7th, 2009 by Brett – 2 Comments
One problem with skill challenges is that roleplaying can hurt the party. A talkative player with no diplomacy is a real problem in a way that a unskilled player in combat really isn’t. In combat the unskilled player does less damage than other characters which slows the combat down, but that is their only real drawback, in a skill challenge a failed ‘attack’ hurts the party, sometimes very badly. This got me to thinking about a variant, the skill challenge as a social combat. read more »