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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Saeviomagy" data-source="post: 4449866" data-attributes="member: 5890">I am actually: I don't think that directly rewarding roleplaying with mechanical benefits in this way is a good idea because it always ends up screwing someone for no good reason. Either the good roleplayer is screwed because he takes mechanically inferior roleplaying rewards, the bad roleplayer gets screwed because he's just there to kill the monsters or the powergamer who wants to roleplay ends up not being able to because he likes a particular mechanical advantage, which restricts his backstory.I'm against the specific article because it's written by a man who publishes a list of awful and unbalanced game mechanics and then challenges powergamers to find anything they can use to their advantage.I'm disagreeing with you because you seem to think that handing out freebie bonuses isn't unbalancing, that someone who is charismatic has no right to be better at social skills than someone who isn't and that somehow the mechanical advantages of dumping charisma are equal to the ability to buy armor from a forge instead of a shop.</blockquote>