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Yup. I feel like it "fixed" it, in the same way the Clone Wars and Bad Batch shows "fixed" the IMO bad storytelling of the Prequel...

Better than the movie even!

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...

Perhaps it is just my personal experience, but I've seen many GMs and Players alike over the years avoid negative effects (from social...

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...

Unless the Player rolls high on their social skill though, right?

Fair enough, but if a bad roll can be ignored, then there shouldn't be a roll at all.

So success DCs don't mean anything?

Results available through the dice are fine IMO, provided those results are filtered through the character of the NPC and that NPCs...

1) The PCs and NPCs are IMO the same in the setting, and who's playing them shouldn't change their need to respond to setting effects...

Not if the GM is playing the NPCs true to their knowledge, personalities, and capabilities within the setting. Even Sauron was...

You are assuming both that there is a minimum amount of time required before anyone can be "invested" in a character, PC or NPC, enough...

And what I'm saying is that if NPCs cannot use social skills to hyperbolically "mind control" PCs, then I think the reverse should also...

i very much disagree with this playstyle of 'my character will always think exactly and only what i want them to think, that i have...