Quote Originally Posted by Hellpyre View Post
Was your problem with starting on the skill challenge that it was mandatory, that the DC was too high, or that it had penalties for failure? You only address the last in your post, but a skill challenge with no consequence for failure sounds like a waste of everyone's time.
Basically, it just went back and forth and ate up a lot of time.

There were consequences for failure, althiugh we weren’t clear about what they were at the time.