Recent content by Micah Sweet

In any regard, being able to ignore social actions for out-of-setting reasons is a problem for me, spell or no spell.

What reasons though? I would want both sides to do it for in-character reasons, but I've seen to many folks on both sides of the screen use Player self-interest as their motivator instead.

I read them. I just found them unsatisfying if you believe the reverse is true.

Not in my experience (or my Players are better at deception than I think). Either answer works.

You know how I feel about doing something in an RPG because it'll make a good story (unless it happen to be a personality trait of the PC). This is just another YMMV situation. If I feel the Players are making choices for their PCs that don't meet setting logic, I'm going to bring it to their...

I always want more content, but I simply have no faith that a publically-traded company is going to put enough effort and resources into making (not marketing, making) a great game over the long haul. They may keep making content as you say, but they're not making it for me. WotC's business and...

Using dice helps people overcome their natural inclination to prioritize their own self-interest over what the character would plausibly do.

Which brings the FTL (generally replicable in most settings) back to technology.

What if they are sure what to do, but what that is runs against what the PC would plausibly do, by the metrics I've outlined above? By your philosophy, there's nothing to stop the Player from just ignoring any social effect the Player doesn't like.

For me, responsible use of that power is simply to have every NPC act according to their personality, capabilities, and knowledge, under the circumstances in the setting at the time. I would hope that the Players adhere to the same philosophy in regards to portraying their PCs, but I have a lot...

And why can't that apply to the PCs? The Player can believe that the PC(s) might be plausibly, but not definitely, persuaded by the argument of an NPC (represented by a skill check and hopefully some roleplay).

How is a successful Persuasion check by the PCs not "mind control"?

What counts as "more recent"? I've read the newer Thrawn books, Dark Disciple, Catalyst, Ahsoka, Lords of the Sith, the Rise of Empire, Lost Stars, From A Certain Point of View (Ep4), Battlefront: Twilight Company, Bloodline, and the Aftermath trilogy. That last wasn't great, but the others were...

If Hope and Fear happen in the game for diagetic reasons, I'm prepared to think of them as diagetic mechanics. That's my (personal) line.

That last is why it wouldn't work for me, but that doesn't mean it isn't a working system that does what it intends to do.