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I've never done that, though. When I ignore something, it's because it's what my character would do. Otherwise I wouldn't ignore it.

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...

Satya Nadella (at Microsoft) ran an employee survey about how excited people at MS were about AI projects. Less than 25% were excited...

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...

I read them. I just found them unsatisfying if you believe the reverse is true.

Not in my experience (or my Players are better at deception than I think). Either answer works.

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

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...

I always want more content, but I simply have no faith that a publically-traded company is going to put enough effort and resources into...

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

Which brings the FTL (generally replicable in most settings) back to technology.

What if they are sure what to do, but what that is runs against what the PC would plausibly do, by the metrics I've outlined above? By...

For me, responsible use of that power is simply to have every NPC act according to their personality, capabilities, and knowledge, under...

And why can't that apply to the PCs? The Player can believe that the PC(s) might be plausibly, but not definitely, persuaded by the...