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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 9335416" data-attributes="member: 22779">Oh, fair enough.  I've been pretty clear here that I'm not on board with the DM arbitrarily road blocking abilities for the sole purpose of satisfying their own sense of what is "plausible".  I simply don't care what you find plausible.  That's a you problem.  The only reason it becomes a me problem is because you're forcing your preferences upon me through the authority of sitting in the big daddy chair. Because if you were simply another player at the table, I would giggle if you tried to deny my use of a character ability.  But, because it's YOUR table and YOUR campaign, suddenly I have to jump through all these arbitrary hoops to satisfy YOUR sense of plausibility.  Which leads to players simply abandoning things like this in favor of spells where the DM won't do that.The feature gives a poor man's version of a limited use spell.  Whoopee!  Wow, that's totally going to destroy your campaign.  Totally unbelievable.  That thirty seconds at the table which isn't likely going to have a single bit of impact on the game is going to completely ruin all your hard work.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/erm.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":erm:" title="Erm    :erm:" data-shortname=":erm:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937.png" title="Person shrugging    :person_shrugging:" data-shortname=":person_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />So, wake me up when we get back to stuff we're actually here to do.  Because faffing about for an hour to book passage on a ship that is completely superfluous to the campaign (could be any ship, any NPC's, doesn't matter since the point of booking the passage is GOING SOMEWHERE).  Because faffing about for an hour trying to send a message when I could simply cast a spell and 15 seconds later get back to the game is just so much fun.No thanks.  I'll stick to not screwing over my players thanks.  If they want to role play out sending a message or booking a passage?  Great.  I can do that.  Otherwise, I'm not going to waste the table's time on incredibly tedious, boring, and utterly pointless stuff just so I can pretend that it's "plausible".  My ego's nowhere near that important to me.</blockquote>

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