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 benefit of the Skill Delve format is that it is compact enough to run in a limited frame of time but is still story-based. Another benefits are that it lets you run different types of stories like, say….a murder mystery! Or something more exotic, like:
Waking the Titan
A boy drifts into sleep. His body begins the slow journey into becoming stone. His village, isolated on the borderlands, has sent townsfolk to find help but they have had little success. The PCs stumble across this town and the villagers plea with them to keep the boy from becoming a statue. The players agree to help and now must find what affliction the boy has then find the cure.
The boy is afflicted with a condition known as the Titan’s Sleep. It is a rare, once-in-a-generation curse left behind by an evil Titan long ago. There is a cure for this curse, but as the party finds out, the cure is as rare and more dangerous. To reverse the Titan’s Sleep requires the miniature sun that is the heart of a colossus.
The players must search for clues, explore strange dimensions and then finally slay the Colossus to save the boy’s life. Can they accomplish this before the Titan’s Sleep brings eternal rest?
At-Will is working on the first part adventure, “The Child of Stone” and is looking for playtesters! Contact gamefiend ( AT) omnivangelist (dot) net if you’re interested.
We’re also discussing this on the forums so stop in!
A Jack of All Trades ,or if you prefer, an extreme example of multi-classing, Gamefiend, a.k.a Quinn Murphy has been discussing, playing and designing games straight out of the womb. He is the owner and Editor-in-Chief of this site in addition to being an aspiring game designer. As you would assume, he is a huge fan of 4e.
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What level characters is this for? 23?
Nope, it’s actually for paragon level characters. It’s a bit hard to explain at the moment, but the fight with the colossus is not a slugfest at all. I’ll endeavor to show you when It’s finished what I intend!