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This sentiment...which I totally agree with, by the way...is repeatedly countered with the argument "but some players can't be trusted...

"I don't trust your motivation, so you have to let the dice decide or be vetoed" is how we got into ::gestures over the thread:: this mess.

If opting out is a choice and comes with no negative consequences vs. risking it to a roll and potentially getting negative consequences...

For whatever it's worth to the thread, my attempt to preserve agency but still have some teeth to the social encounter would be a simple...

So they can choose not to be persuaded? And by "set" you mean calculate by formula given by the GM. And that's it? They lower their...

Your original post made that one check sound like the completion of the social phase and the results were the conclusion ("...these...

In light of this reply, I don't understand why that mechanical check against Persuasion was worded the way it was, at all.

You don't seem to understand the ramifications of game language, or you are presenting the options poorly. To a player, this reads as...

Yeah that’s certainly true, and eg. for browsers there’s scant support for certain kinds of annotations (at least in open source...

I think I disagree with the premise, that a single miss in combat creates a frozen narrative. If the state of play hasn't changed...

The problem isn't the debate over differing views, that's interesting. The problem is that they arrived at those views with the implicit...

134 pages in and one thing we've learned for sure is that @Micah Sweet and I both have too much free time.

Literally anything is plausible...people do ALL KINDS of crazy, unexpected things. Sometimes those unexpected things signal the...

Limits? The DM has to believe that the NPC(s) might be plausibly, but not definitely, persuaded by the argument. For that matter, a...

Like, in general (not in AnotherGuy's example above, where it's the orc rolling it)? I don't know, that's up to the GM. Maybe they're...