I figure a skill challenge is a better model, most of the time, with successes and failures all the way through.
Certainly, for adventures like "Josh Bakes a Cake" (part 1. I've actually baked two cakes, both from scratch; I should do that again at some point) -- which involve bits like "spend 15 minutes calculating the actual measurements based on the in-book ratio for making baking flour and the cake recipe", "realize I used a square pan instead of a circular one and burned the bottom of the layers; spend 10 minutes scraping off the burned bits", "decide that the frosting doesn't have enough chocolate. Quadruple the amount of chocolate in the frosting", and "discover that the scraped layers don't have much resemblance to a cake, as they don't have much physical coherence. Cover with more frosting," "leave overnight in fridge" and "serve to party. Watch cake-like mound (now much more moist due to overnight stay in frosting) vanish".
Some successes, some failures, some very very close to a critical failure -- but overall, a success.
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Date: 2008-06-19 10:42 pm (UTC)I figure a skill challenge is a better model, most of the time, with successes and failures all the way through.
Certainly, for adventures like "Josh Bakes a Cake" (part 1. I've actually baked two cakes, both from scratch; I should do that again at some point) -- which involve bits like "spend 15 minutes calculating the actual measurements based on the in-book ratio for making baking flour and the cake recipe", "realize I used a square pan instead of a circular one and burned the bottom of the layers; spend 10 minutes scraping off the burned bits", "decide that the frosting doesn't have enough chocolate. Quadruple the amount of chocolate in the frosting", and "discover that the scraped layers don't have much resemblance to a cake, as they don't have much physical coherence. Cover with more frosting," "leave overnight in fridge" and "serve to party. Watch cake-like mound (now much more moist due to overnight stay in frosting) vanish".
Some successes, some failures, some very very close to a critical failure -- but overall, a success.