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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 5604201" data-attributes="member: 9037">I have noticed that some people just don't trust DMs. I think that is one of the issues here. Take the bluff issue with the Baron. If the DM feels that it is going to take some really clever maneuverings to get past the guards and set up the challenge that way. Then yes I can fully accept that an ordinary bluff "I am the spy and he is expecting me" won't just work. Or not work the way you expect like the guard going and getting a superior. If I had a situation set up like that I would give plenty of clues for the players to find on ways to improve the bluff or find another way in. But just rolling the dice and saying something may not work.Now a clever bluff backed up with say forged documents or a disguise  that makes you look like someone the guards has seen coming and going or someone of impotence importance is going to have a much better chance of working. I don't set up every encounter to be that hard it is situational. Sure you can intimate the coward who is only working for the cult because he likes the rewards into giving up the location of the sacrifice to enable the big bad to enter the world. But a true believer who really believes that his god will punish him for all eternity if he gives up the information is not going to do so no matter what you do to him. As a DM I always reward my players imagination if they come up with something really creative then I will let it happen and if it is something social I won't even ask for a roll.</blockquote>

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