Recent content by Micah Sweet

True. RAW isn't really relevant to any given table anyway. If I don't like a rule, I change it.

Ok, fair enough. Guess how much that affects my game or my opinion on the matter?

There's also no RAW saying it can't, and given how the PCs are (pretty much) all people who came from a community of NPCs, why should things that affect those NPCs not affect them? Bob the Fighter is just as human as his parents and a bunch of other people from his home village. Why is he...

Well, it makes a difference to me. The people of the setting use future scientific data and technology to create these things. They know or can know how they work, and they are generated from objects made by people in the setting who can, generally speaking, make more of them, and they can...

Most of that is presented as science. It makes a difference.

You just said there are no rules about it, just no examples supporting my view.

Do you have a quote on that? I love when stuff is spelled out in marketing videos!

That's not both. That's what I said. A good amount of RAI, no RAW. Although, if they specifically leave it to the GM, then it's back in our court.

Sounds like a fair amount of RAI to support your view, but no RAW (I assume you mean 5.0, since I don't care what 5.5 has to say on that or any other subject). Fair enough, but I'm still going to adjudicate it my way.

To anyone in the industry as well as the community, yes. Plenty of folks, but not everyone.

If the players discussed their plans in front of the GM, then the GM has that knowledge before the attempt is made. But, the Players could always change their mind, or even lie about their intentions to the GM until something happens.

Do the rules say social skills don't work on PCs? What game?

We have officially reached YMMV territory. I see no reason PCs and NPCs can't use social skills for the same things, and on each other.

And so long as the reason he can't be convinced comes from the character and the circumstances, not because the Player doesn't want their PC to be convinced, that's fine in my book.

I know I generally trust private companies over publicly traded to care about the quality of their product more.