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You're conflating the player with the character. They are two very different things. The player has that level of control over the...

I’ll tell you what: for a tongue-tied GM with no acting or entertaining or storytelling or social skills…THAT strawman GM should just...

That certainly helps! But things of course can be represented in different ways, not necessarily by acting, it can be also via evocative...

The thing is this: "A NPC rolled 26 on their joke telling roll." Did you laugh? Sure, you can pretend it was funny and force a fake...

Hey, we agree on something! Although probably not on what we do about it. In my case it's "roll dice less often!"

As a DM I find DCs to be useful because I don't really know how my hastily sketched NPCs would respond, and because I know what the PCs...

They do, but ultimately it is the GM who assigns them. And they can also say that some things are so easy that they automatically...

I suggest no such thing. Your character can be a rat-catcher that dies at the next kobold fight. But the player still has only one...

Well, yes, that's because they were actually a threat at the time, and he knew it. They weren't first level fighters and he rolled badly.

In my experience most players lean into the story and voluntarily have their characters make at least some bad decisions, without being...

Yes, the reverse is also true. Attempts to intimidate are not fear spells. Attempts to know if somebody is lying are not detect lie...

Once again, I think the solution to that is: 1) The player doesn't actually know what the NPC is. Leverage that doubt to try to...

But GM can ignore such effect when it suits them too. The GM can just decide, that Lord Dreadskull of the Death Knights of Inconvenient...

Honestly, they are not. The player's sole focus is on their character, they probably have a elaborate backstory, they have been played...

What's the problem with that? Seems to me that the player of that character is about to start rolling a new one.