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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 7196399" data-attributes="member: 5100">I agree with all this. It comes down to the stats on the paper to determine success/failure (mostly). If someone really wows me, I'll probably give them advantage on the roll or some minor bonus. That's more around the player engagement, though. I'm much more inclined to hand out bonuses for a player who is trying, within their ability, vs. someone who throws out a more workable idea, but seems to be a bit bored by it all.Anyway, bringing this back to the original question.... It's easy to see how the alpha player could dominate social scenarios unfairly. But, not every character is equally adept at doing other tasks -- like hiding something. This is an important consideration when deciding whether to roll the dice or not. Does it give an unfair advantage/disadvantage between players if you skip the roll?Personally, I don't care if your table rolls for social tasks or not. Either way is a perfectly valid style. If everyone is pretty good about either toning down their own abilities to match their sheet or (within polite bounds) helping others to come up with appropriate narratives when playing "above their pay grade", that's great. Everyone is having fun. It's a game. Knock yourself out. The same applies if no one bothers to "spend points" on social skills, knowing that Jim or Sally will be the party face/leader, regardless of stats. As long as everyone is having fun, it's golden.The same logic applies to hiding stuff. If everyone is cool with narrating it, great. I don't buy that stuffing a gem in a pillow case actually qualifies as successfully hiding it, but if no one bats an eye, groovy. It might even be a DC 20. (My friends and I don't prank each other very often, anymore, but we're downright mean when we do. There were a couple of running competitions to see how long folks could hide a known item in someone else's house without them finding it -- the results ran in weeks. I might be biased in what I think of as a good hiding spot.)</blockquote>

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