Merchants in ruffled silk bark over each other while mothers cluck after their children. Guardsmen walk two abreast in worn mail, leaning into each stall in search of improprieties. The market smells of bread, sweat, the forge, and perfumes all at once.
You push your way shoulder-first through the packed cobblestone streets, your minds and mouths [...]

The cavern is so dark  here that it absorbs light. It makes candles of your torches and lanterns, shadows diminishing even magical light. You can see no farther than your hands can reach.  You slowly make your journey, the darkness playing tricks of vision and  mind. The darkness retreats, reforms, taunts, and cajoles.  [...]

A long time ago, I had this idea for making adventures that are just a series of chained together skill challenges.  It would be like a Dungeon Delve but with SCs in their place!
Basically what it would be is this: three linked Skill Challenges that form a mini-adventure, similar in operation to a Dungeon Delve.
One [...]

A very good question that gets asked of me:
When do you use a skill challenge?
My answer:

You use skill challenges when it isn’t necessary for the players to succeed for the story to continue, and where the process of failing of succeeding is interesting.
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Skill Challenges typically represent a progression of events. You start at point A and move to point Z while progressing through points, B,C,D, etc.
But sometimes the most sensible thing to have our players do is to repeat their actions. Certain actions are iterative, and not just a flowing of actions from one thing to [...]