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Cool. Please read my response to @Crimson Longinus The dice are there to reflect your immediate response. Interestingly the Persuasion...

In D&D, however, that hidden "sniper" could be dropping a fireball on the targets; and those can hurt. Some of us try to push back...

Typically an ambush is a tactic one uses to get a major advantage over a superior foe you cannot, or would not want to, take on in a...

So the problem is actually the 3-round-combat. If a combat is on average 3 rounds, getting the "surprise round" removes more than 1/3 of...

I have to say I prefer the 5.0 approach. Less weirdness, easier to handle. And yeah, it makes ambush quite powerful, but I kinda feel it...

That's why I mentioned avatar as an alternative. With token play you're just doing whatever suits you with the "character" (and yes...

Eh. You can't be expected to establish every bit of out-of-context business in sessions zero. They probably should have told them...

There's a variation of #1. "Why is it you think your character could to that, other than 'I want to'?"

You can view it trough that lens also. You can do only what is explicitly stated in the rules. That's the way bureaucracy works. Problem...

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...

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...

IMO. In 5e the DM determines whether a PC even gets to make a persuasion check against an NPC and the DC and the results. So as long as...

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

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