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Your character's Wisdom is too low to perceive the setting. Everything looks, sounds, and feels like a fuzzy grey blob. What do you do?

I'm not a very big fan of this. It's like the GM playing the game with themself.

I love this example! Al Czervik (played by Rodney Dangerfield) is extremely effective socially. It's clear the background characters...

I've been thinking about this thing about mental stats, and how I've frequently seen arguments along the lines of "it's especially...

I think by using really open setting as the contrast with railroad, you are building in an assumption that at least some RPGers - eg me...

Ah, there we go. See, I don’t think there is such a thing. There is roleplaying…lots of it, really…that I don’t appreciate, and much...

I think it’s meant to be like “force of personality” or something… but yeah, breaking down the spectrum of human ability into six...

Okay, so let’s take an example. It’s silly, but I hope it’ll be something that everyone gets. Rodney Dangerfield’s character in...

I don't know what the GM's reason is for violating table expectations to control my character's choices. Why do you assume it's...

I have a hard time imagining the sort of play that would make it desirable for any participant to violate table expectations to control...

As an aside for what it's worth I personally do not have an issue with setting group standards for roleplaying choices, and I actually...

It's not up to you to accept the way other people and designers choose to design/play. You can handle your table however you want to...

...err....because the low charisma comes with a penalty to die rolls.

The question is « who decides whether an Int 8 character is smart enough to toss a pebble to distract the guard? ». The rules are...