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Hm, I'd love to discuss this with you, interesting situation you had there; but frankly I'm sick and tired of being patronised, slapped around and insulted. Can you understand that? :)

:D That's funny. I wish there'd been waaaay more questions and fewer frustrated, patronising monologues in this thread! [shakes head] You see, I developed my style _because_ it works for me. I did use the other method, years ago when I started GMing - but what I'm doing now suits me and the...

Re spotting lies / untrustworthiness and hunches: Not sure how much bearing real-life things should have on a rules discussion :) , but here goes: Not quite - a much as evaluating other human beings has a lot to do with not-quite-conscious levels, we live in a society in which all adult...

Hm, I'm finding it sorta difficult to answer that one - the way you wrote it, it's not a situation likely to come up in a game I run. Again, it's a style thing. I'm sure your style works well for you - that's why you run your game the way you do, I'd assume! OTOH I don't tend to run NPC...

I don't use training requirements for levelling up. Tried it but dropped it for the reason some poseters already mentioned: it interferes with timing missions. I do require off-camera downtime for some things, especially for gaining access to a Prestige Class, or for multiclassing in a...

Does the Arcane Archer's 2nd-level ability permit the character to place non-circular area spells accurately through an arrow? That would involve not only hitting the desired starting point of, say, the cone-shaped burst of a Colour Spray spell by hitting it with the imbued arrow, but also...

[Pallas's account, by Pallas's player: ] Apari woke me up. It was still night. Little time had passed. He showed me his arm. A thin black chain was wrapped around it. It was tightening of its own volition. I looked at him. I didn’t know what he wanted. It was his chain. Carefully he unwound and...

Hint: read my whole post. More explicit hint: check the second smiley. :)

:) My style appears to work for my players ok, and - surprise! - they do invest skill points in social interaction skills. So do I when I play. My Nature Witch in S'mon's Borderlands game has ranks not only in Diplomacy but also in Intimidate, a cross-class skill for her. And I get to use...

After all that getting shouted at, :) I still think it is interesting to see people's various approaches to social handling interaction in DnD. I might not be convinced by the approach of you people who disagree with me, nor do I expect to convert you. But hearing what you do helps me define...

:D No no, that's not it. You wouldn't be asking to make those checks in S'mon's game - you likely wouldn't be playing in it! Nor in my game. Our styles just wouldn't mesh. And that's not a bad thing. Styles differ, people just have to find a group where they can play/GM their own favourite...

My Midnight game: high fantasy, very dark and grim, highly heroic. Gripping PCs, thanks to my awesome players.

Whoah. Our gaming experiences couldn't be more different. :) We're moving away from discussing rules and into discussing gaming styles, and I don't mean to put my style over yours by what I say, merely to explain where I think we differ, but: Of _course_ I've seen players have their PCs...

Interesting. Do you also roll Intimidate checks against PCs and in case of success, tell the player, 'You're terrified, you do as he tells you'? :confused:

Yup, I agree. I suspect we may be in the minority ... Neither do I, of course. How do you other people handle this? Do you make a secret Sense Motive check for a PC and if that fails, tell the player that their PC 'likes' or 'trusts' the NPC - even if the player is suspicious...

:D Glad to hear that. Much as I trust you, letting you run my PC would be taking things a bit far ... ;) Yup, I agree of course. That whole system is strange and unsatisfying IMO. Rules-wise, there are far too many different social-interacion skills, with too few accessible to most classes...

Hm, that's tricky. Planning to have the freedom fighter PCs captured by the Shadow Forces, are you? Are you sure they would even surrender if given a chance, in this constellation? If there's one setting that encourages a last-stand mentality rather than surrender, it's Midnight. (Says the...

I've seen little swearing of characters in games, and prob close to zero obcene swearing - which I think is a good thing overall. I do like inventive swearing that gives colour to a character, not a doubt about it, OTOH the more common, 20th-21st century US-flavoured swearing doesn't really...

As DM I'd ask for a Spellcraft check from the caster to place the spell centre so that the party won't be caught in it - which includes noticing that the rest of the party should move further down the hallway and warning them before the spell is cast. That kind of thing works only if the room...

Too true. Last session I had some PCs surrender when combat went badly and the bad guys were threatening to CDG the first PC they'd brought down unconsicous. Of course the coward of the party immediately took the opportunity to break and run! The only reason the unconscious PC wasn't CDG'd...