D&D 5E Using social skills on other PCs

[HammerMan]

I don't advocate pixel-hunting. As well, I don't attach my identity to a "play style."

no you attach it to your belief that you and only you can read the true words of the RPG... that anyone else that interprets a game rule different must have read it wrong.

 

[iserith]

no you attach it to your belief that you and only you can read the true words of the RPG... that anyone else that interprets a game rule different must have read it wrong.

I believe others can reach the same correct reading. But there are many who don't. No big deal.

 

[TwoSix]

half way... my under standing is at 50.001% of the way to the moon the moons gravity kicks in.

Nah. The Earth is 81 times the mass of the Moon, so you'd have to be 9 times closer to the Moon than to the Earth for the Moon's gravity to be stronger.

 

[HammerMan]

Except there's no uncertainty when the player decides how the character reactions. No uncertainty, no roll.

unless there IS uncertainty. The player needs to know IF the ORC can intimidate them to decide the characters reaction.

SO read the book and set a DC (I can't help because I house ruled DCs long ago).
The book say binary pass/fail based on DC. (I prefer my house rule nuance, but what ever)

YOU are the one declairing no uncertainty, but even THAT is a ruling not a rule.

I have seen people play with your style (although I have out grown it) and it can be fun, but it is no more and no less supported by the current rules.

 

[HammerMan]

Nah. The Earth is 81 times the mass of the Moon, so you'd have to be 9 times closer to the Moon than to the Earth for the Moon's gravity to be stronger.

look at that, I learn something new everyday. Makes sense (an isn't based on a movie) so I will accept it unless someone with true scientific knowledge contradicts it.

 

[TwoSix]

look at that, I learn something new everyday. Makes sense (an isn't based on a movie) so I will accept it unless someone with true scientific knowledge contradicts it.

F(g)=Gm1m2/r^2 is pretty basic physics, but sure.

 

[HammerMan]

F(g)=Gm1m2/r^2 is pretty basic physics, but sure.

I love that there are people in this world that can say in all honesty anything in physics is 'basic'
I can read the formula, but I wont remember it long, and I couldn't reproduce it (unless I googled or cut and paste it) on a bet.
edit: and I am guessing the upper and lower case gs are gravity of the two objects, the r is most likely speed, m and f I don't even have a guess on

 

[TwoSix]

I love that there are people in this world that can say in all honesty anything in physics is 'basic'
I can read the formula, but I wont remember it long, and I couldn't reproduce it (unless I googled or cut and paste it) on a bet.
edit: and I am guessing the upper and lower case gs are gravity of the two objects, the r is most likely speed, m and f I don't even have a guess on

F(g) is Force of gravity. m1 and m2 are the masses of the 2 objects pulling on each other, r is the distance between them. Big G is the gravitational constant, which is there to make the math and units work.

 

[clearstream]

Except there's no uncertainty when the player decides how the character reactions. No uncertainty, no roll.

That's disputed as you know. See my post on re-entry to this thread.

The simplest version is - DM decides whether something is uncertain. The rest of the process stands much as you have it.

 

[Bill Zebub]

I love that there are people in this world that can say in all honesty anything in physics is 'basic'
I can read the formula, but I wont remember it long, and I couldn't reproduce it (unless I googled or cut and paste it) on a bet.
edit: and I am guessing the upper and lower case gs are gravity of the two objects, the r is most likely speed, m and f I don't even have a guess on

"Basic" in the sense that you learn that formula in the first semester of high school physics.