Once Again with Skill Challenges: Brandes Stoddard (opens in new tab)

This is going to be an unpopular opinion in some parts of the internet, but dealing with skill challenges (even if they don’t get called that) in non-D&D games has shown me that 5e’s unstructured approach to skill challenges leaves room for things to go well. This is going to take a lot of explanation, so please save your fulmination for the end.