If an NPC is telling the truth, what's the Insight DC to know they're telling the truth?

[Guest 6801328]

Is it possible to be a veteran character but still be low level?

Technically yes, because "Soldier" is a background.

I think, though, what you mean is that, in your interpretation, there is a whole bunch of knowledge about the game world that only an experienced ("veteran") character would know of. And that's fine; you apparently like playing that way.

But a lot of people think that:
1) Novice adventurers would be as likely to know facts about their real world monsters as we are likely to know about, say, the fact that a Playtpus has poison.
2) That it's just not interesting/fun/practical to pretend to be ignorant about game world knowledge, when there is so much other game world knowledge of which players actually are ignorant, and that if ignorance is important to you it's so easy to not use the stuff players already know about.

If you want to explain why your way is more enjoyable, because a lot of us are genuinely interested in understanding alternate forms of roleplaying, I (we?) would love to hear about it. But stubbornly stating (or implying) opinion as fact isn't really very compelling.

 

[iserith]

Is it possible to be a veteran character but still be low level?

I suppose it depends on what you mean by "veteran." One can certainly be a veteran player and play a lower-level character.

 

[Yardiff]

Technically yes, because "Soldier" is a background.

I think, though, what you mean is that, in your interpretation, there is a whole bunch of knowledge about the game world that only an experienced ("veteran") character would know of. And that's fine; you apparently like playing that way.

But a lot of people think that:
1) Novice adventurers would be as likely to know facts about their real world monsters as we are likely to know about, say, the fact that a Playtpus has poison.
2) That it's just not interesting/fun/practical to pretend to be ignorant about game world knowledge, when there is so much other game world knowledge of which players actually are ignorant, and that if ignorance is important to you it's so easy to not use the stuff players already know about.

If you want to explain why your way is more enjoyable, because a lot of us are genuinely interested in understanding alternate forms of roleplaying, I (we?) would love to hear about it. But stubbornly stating (or implying) opinion as fact isn't really very compelling.

Funny.

No I don't think you are that interested So you do you and I'll do me.

 

[Yardiff]

I suppose it depends on what you mean by "veteran." One can certainly be a veteran player and play a lower-level character.

try reading what I posted again and see if your reply makes since. Here I'll bold my post.

 

[Guest 6801328]

No I don't think you are that interested So you do you and I'll do me.

That's ironic, because when I was writing my post about the oxytocin rush I was thinking, "You know, it's possible that the actor stance people get the same kind of rush from a really spot-on performance. I wonder if any of them will say something about that, or whether it's just going to be more of 'my version is the only real roleplaying' argument."

 

[Bawylie]

Is it possible to be a veteran character but still be low level?

Yup.

I did a one-shot as a retired dwarf paladin that was out-of-shape and over-the-hill but got sucked back into adventuring due to his LG nature.

 

[Yardiff]

That's ironic, because when I was writing my post about the oxytocin rush I was thinking, "You know, it's possible that the actor stance people get the same kind of rush from a really spot-on performance. I wonder if any of them will say something about that, or whether it's just going to be more of 'my version is the only real roleplaying' argument."

I never said that the way I RP is any better or worse then anyone else's RP. I actually REALLY got the impression that that was the way you where coming off.

Because of the way you were being really dismissive of the example character pretending to act out his characters fear.

 

[Yardiff]

Yup.

I did a one-shot as a retired dwarf paladin that was out-of-shape and over-the-hill but got sucked back into adventuring due to his LG nature.

So what level was he when he retired?

And when you reactivated him what level was he considered?

 

[iserith]

try reading what I posted again and see if your reply makes since. Here I'll bold my post.

It still depends on what you mean by "veteran" and what implications you think that has.

 

[Guest 6801328]

I never said that the way I RP is any better or worse then anyone else's RP. I actually REALLY got the impression that that was the way you where coming off.

Because of the way you were being really dismissive of the example character pretending to act out his characters fear.

It's possible I bear some emotional baggage from Saelorn stubbornly repeating that I wasn't really roleplaying (until he blocked me). So I tend to come out swinging on this issue.