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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Afrodyte" data-source="post: 7742796" data-attributes="member: 8713">Ugh! This reminds me of something that happened to me a lot in one game more years ago than I care to admit.This was 3e. I was playing a silver-tongued rogue (I am shy and awkward in real life, and I was even worse back then), and whenever the party interacted with NPCs, another player, who was playing a monk with a Charisma of about 8 sort of steamrolled over the interaction and did all the talking, even interrupting me before I had a chance to say, "Can I make a [insert social skill] check?" Finally, I had enough of it, and when he steamrolled over an interaction again while my silver-tongued rogue was right there, I piped up with, "Isn't Charisma your dump stat?"Nowadays, I'd probably be more tactful, but in my experience, refusing to play out the weaknesses of a character in a situation that calls for it affects other players even more than it affects the DM. Other players also made choices about the strengths and weaknesses of their characters as reflected in their stats, so someone who goes, "Nope!" when the dice don't favor them in one situation can wind up stepping on the toes of a role that another player built their character to fill. Unless, of course, one player's agency matters more than everyone else's.</blockquote>