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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6771376" data-attributes="member: 2067">Again, that's the Real World.What's wrong with modeling that in the game? &quot;Your bard made a DC 18 Persuasion check, so yeah, the king is pretty dang persuaded by your argument. What does your bard actually say that is so persuading?&quot;or&quot;Your wizard made a DC 18 Intelligence check, so yeah, you can figure out the puzzle. It's really simple once you figure out how certain symbols match together.&quot;It's not like Arthur Conan Doyle needed to be a genius or like Tolkein needed to know magic or like whoever is writing Batman these days needs to know what it's like to be some sort of paranoid super-ninja, it's just that they needed to write a character who believably does these things. These characters have these skills and accomplish things with these skills without the audience having to understand the particulars. When Benedict Cumberbatch pretends to be Sherlock, it's not like he actually understands what it's like to be a genius. The idea that you can only pretend to be someone who is as intelligent as you are or less isn't a true limitation. The game gives you ways to pretend to be smart without having to be smart, to pretend to be persuasive or insightful without you as a player having to be those things.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 6771376, member: 2067"] Again, that's the Real World. What's wrong with modeling that in the game? "Your bard made a DC 18 Persuasion check, so yeah, the king is pretty dang persuaded by your argument. What does your bard actually say that is so persuading?" or "Your wizard made a DC 18 Intelligence check, so yeah, you can figure out the puzzle. It's really simple once you figure out how certain symbols match together." It's not like Arthur Conan Doyle needed to be a genius or like Tolkein needed to know magic or like whoever is writing Batman these days needs to know what it's like to be some sort of paranoid super-ninja, it's just that they needed to write a character who believably does these things. These characters have these skills and accomplish things with these skills without the audience having to understand the particulars. When Benedict Cumberbatch pretends to be Sherlock, it's not like he actually understands what it's like to be a genius. The idea that you can only pretend to be someone who is as intelligent as you are or less isn't a true limitation. The game gives you ways to pretend to be smart without having to be smart, to pretend to be persuasive or insightful without you as a player having to be those things. [/QUOTE]

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