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<blockquote data-quote="GMforPowergamers" data-source="post: 9451827" data-attributes="member: 67338">my group has been together (most of us) since 2e... our newest player came in before before the switch from 3e to 3.5... everyone has DMed, in fact we rotate who DMs, so right now I am running two games and two others of the 7 of us (broken up over two days) 3 of us right now but in theory sometimes up to 4 of us have games running (2 on 2off both Tuesday and Saturday nights).Calling for skills or asking for skills is an easy short hand... it's as easy to say &quot;You don't have to roll here is what you know&quot; as it is to say &quot;roll this skill plus this stat&quot;.As for &quot;I roll diplomacy&quot; I get blocked by people cause I argue there is nothing wrong with that... right now I play online with a old group of friends, but once upon a time I was teaching 5e at game stores, schools and cons... one of the easiest ways to teach someone to take the chance to talk is to let them roll the die... to know the skill is what matters everything else is for fun... i have brought more then a few shy people out of there shell (at the table atleast) by letting them start with &quot;Can I use persuade&quot;We even have a joke on Saturday night about it... we call it &quot;Diplomancy&quot; and even now 10+ years with no skill called diplomacy we still ask &quot;Can I just use diplomancy&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GMforPowergamers, post: 9451827, member: 67338"] my group has been together (most of us) since 2e... our newest player came in before before the switch from 3e to 3.5... everyone has DMed, in fact we rotate who DMs, so right now I am running two games and two others of the 7 of us (broken up over two days) 3 of us right now but in theory sometimes up to 4 of us have games running (2 on 2off both Tuesday and Saturday nights). Calling for skills or asking for skills is an easy short hand... it's as easy to say "You don't have to roll here is what you know" as it is to say "roll this skill plus this stat". As for "I roll diplomacy" I get blocked by people cause I argue there is nothing wrong with that... right now I play online with a old group of friends, but once upon a time I was teaching 5e at game stores, schools and cons... one of the easiest ways to teach someone to take the chance to talk is to let them roll the die... to know the skill is what matters everything else is for fun... i have brought more then a few shy people out of there shell (at the table atleast) by letting them start with "Can I use persuade" We even have a joke on Saturday night about it... we call it "Diplomancy" and even now 10+ years with no skill called diplomacy we still ask "Can I just use diplomancy" [/QUOTE]

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