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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8769325" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>Because the person who plays the bard wants to take social skills, which is why they chose bard in the first place. And for the times when I do call for a social skill check (which I do), they then have it. But I don't devolve every single time the party talks to someone into a social skill check, because I think that's just silly.</p><p></p><p>Sure, if every time a player talked to an NPC I immediately said "Roll a Persuasion check" before anything else happened, then maybe the players of those classes that don't have features or bonuses to those kinds of checks might feel like they are missing something. But that's why I don't call for them that often. I just do it every once in a while if the situation might call for it... and it happens infrequently enough that nobody is remembering every past time it happened and who passed and who didn't to make some players feel like their classes were leaving them behind on it.</p><p></p><p>Balance only really comes into play at the table when something happens so frequently that the players can actually identify the trends-- if they can actually notice and realize that one class is far outpacing the others in whatever it is that is being compared. But if you just don't do the same things over and over again so often that they DO remember it... most issues of balance never come up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 8769325, member: 7006"] Because the person who plays the bard wants to take social skills, which is why they chose bard in the first place. And for the times when I do call for a social skill check (which I do), they then have it. But I don't devolve every single time the party talks to someone into a social skill check, because I think that's just silly. Sure, if every time a player talked to an NPC I immediately said "Roll a Persuasion check" before anything else happened, then maybe the players of those classes that don't have features or bonuses to those kinds of checks might feel like they are missing something. But that's why I don't call for them that often. I just do it every once in a while if the situation might call for it... and it happens infrequently enough that nobody is remembering every past time it happened and who passed and who didn't to make some players feel like their classes were leaving them behind on it. Balance only really comes into play at the table when something happens so frequently that the players can actually identify the trends-- if they can actually notice and realize that one class is far outpacing the others in whatever it is that is being compared. But if you just don't do the same things over and over again so often that they DO remember it... most issues of balance never come up. [/QUOTE]
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