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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 2575109" data-attributes="member: 22779">Wot Hypersmurf said.I've always wondered why people are so against social skills.  This is a pretty decent way to model an actual person, rather than the player behind the character.  Why should a farmboy straight off the turnip truck be as eloquent as Bardy McBard, 15th level Minstrel Extraordinaire?  Just because you the player are capable of making great speaches does not mean that your 9 Int, 9 Cha, 0 ranks in diplomacy character should be speaking in complete paragraphs, gramatically correct with lots of polysylabic words.I've seen far more "role players" ignore their character sheets than I've seen "roll players" try to pull out the "roll instead" trick.  I'm sorry, but, if your character has average scores and no skills in social interaction, guess what?  He's about as interesting to talk to as a tree.  If you want to play that eloquent character smooth talking his way through life, you character sheet had better reflect that in my game.</blockquote>