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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolfpack48" data-source="post: 9551899" data-attributes="member: 6872648">Thanks all -- some really great thoughts.Okay, to cut to the chase, both were awarded checks for roleplaying their characters -- there was never a dispute about this, and to overgeek's point, we're lenient about checks in general -- they are simply chances at increases, not actual increases so we're good with the mechanic and happy to reward any sort of RP. Our players are happy RPers anyway, so we're not really trying to goad more RP out of them, they take to it pretty naturally and like to ham it up.But to dbm's point, all of us saw the opportunity to metagame the hell out of that particular interaction. That is, Gullible character gets into trouble and Overbearing character "protects" them from the choice, everybody gets checks. We agreed that could become a fun shtick and if we ham it up in different places and situations to good fun, then no problem at all. But if it became some sort of standard perfunctory procedure for free checks, or it became apparent that the players were gaming the system every session, then we might need to call BS.I'm not worried about our table specifically, we've been gaming together for a long time. The fact that everyone at the table saw the min/maxing opportunity though, was interesting.</blockquote>