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#1 ultimate_cap Jun 15, 2009 12:17:05	Is there a Skill Challenge for this? I have an eladrin fighter in my game who is attempting to chase down an ice dwarf (homebrew race) who is mounted on boarback. The boars running speed is 10, the eladrins is 9. They are running accross what basically amounts to frozen tundra. The dwarf has a head start of 60 squares. Is there any way for the eladrin to realistically chase down this boar? Is there a way to make this a skill challenge (or opposed skill challenge) or is it best to simply say, there is no way you can catch that mounted dwarf? Thanks!
#2 max422 Jun 15, 2009 12:23:14	Is there a Skill Challenge for this? I have an eladrin fighter in my game who is attempting to chase down an ice dwarf (homebrew race) who is mounted on boarback. The boars running speed is 10, the eladrins is 9. They are running accross what basically amounts to frozen tundra. The dwarf has a head start of 60 squares. Is there any way for the eladrin to realistically chase down this boar? Is there a way to make this a skill challenge (or opposed skill challenge) or is it best to simply say, there is no way you can catch that mounted dwarf? Thanks! Don't know the rules, but it seems to me there's always a chance someone/thing could literally stumble across some irregularity in the landscape, or through fatigue and land on their face. Dexterity and stamina would come to bear on that...
#3 crimson_lancer Jun 15, 2009 12:24:55	Terrain Challenge! Run it as a Skill Challenge, but using Athletics, Acrobatics, things like that, because while the Dwarf's boar will be running around obstacles like Chasms or an Ice Flow or some such, the Eladrin will be going over them! Also, allow the Party to help out in any way they can think of, like boosting his speed, teleporting ahead a bit and giving him a boost up on a jump over something, etc. Any ideas they have that are truly successful should also count as a single success. Hope that helps!
#4 AbdulAlhazred Jun 15, 2009 12:50:07	Yeah, I would say you could do a skill challenge to attempt to eventually run down the enemy. Sooner or later one or the other has to get tired and fall behind. You could lose his trail or conversely the enemy might get lost or something like that and lose time. Another tactic would be to pretend to give up. The boar can outrun you at full tilt, but he isn't going to keep that up mile after mile. Eventually if your not visibly persuing he'll probably slow down or even stop and you could sneak up. So I would say nature, endurance, athletics, and maybe stealth would be usable skills.
#5 ultimate_cap Jun 16, 2009 8:14:23	Thanks for the replies all. I worked something up and appreciate the input.
#6 n647 Jun 16, 2009 9:46:17	hmm I think there is other way to look at it... you take both, the mounted dwarf and the eldarin, they start running, and you put obstacles, or say there are obstacles every X squares they run, each time they go to a obstacle, they must make a check depending on the type of obstacle, jump something or avoid a collision athletic, to smash trough something maybe a str based test, to avoid a danger hindsight, etc... each time one of them fail a check it get slowed down, advance at half speed for next round or -2 square to move, or immobile for around. sure you have to adapt it for the situation and all. but this would allow for kind of an exciting race, where the eldaring has a chance to catch the dwarf, or the dwarf could escape (the dwarf escape if get`s too far away form the eldarin, maybe 120 squares?). this gives a nice solution skill challenge like without being a skill challenge in the strict sense, also I think the other chars should be unable to aid in this case, or not much, maybe they could aid with hindsight based checks, but it would be hard as they would be far behind after a while...