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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RainOfSteel" data-source="post: 3229846" data-attributes="member: 24460">I also agree with most of what you have to say, except for:A player may believe that an offer cannot be refused, but this does not mean that this belief is true.A player may believe that the response they want from an NPC to an offer he/she makes is the only rational one, and therefore that the NPC should accept the offer as a rational act, but this does not mean that this belief is true.I would be extremely cautious.If someone wanted a bauble from me that I thought had only a low worth, and that someone was willing to do something big for it, I would spend my time wondering what that bauble really was.As the hypothetical King in this situation, I might say yes, but I would include a stipulation that if my court wizard found out (while the characters were out slaying) that the bauble was something worth more than X (some value relevant to the situation), then Y substitute would instead be the maximum payment.If an offer sounds too good to be true, it probably is.--------------------------------------NPCs do not always act in exact the way a PC expects, and die rolls add the element of uncertainty into the situation.  One where a purely arbitrary DM decision does not make the final determination.  Although it is only my personal belief, if I don't have some type of control of the situation (my chance at success via a die roll), then I really might as well not have a character sheet or dice.  It's back to the pre-RPG days of "I shot you first!  Nuh-uh, I shot you first!"  (Or, worse, just getting dragged along by main force through whatever tale the DM happens to be telling.)</blockquote>

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