For this month's installment, here's the skill challenge I've been talking about so much. The skill challenge represents the difficulty in traveling around Suderham, a city ruled by a band of foul slave traders known as the Slave Lords. The PCs might need to enter the city in order to free someone from the Slave Lords' clutches, slay a particularly powerful villain, or otherwise take an active step to disrupt an evil plot.

After the skill challenge are some design notes explaining my thoughts behind it.