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<blockquote data-quote="Lyxen" data-source="post: 8447980" data-attributes="member: 7032025">Indeed. Another way, which is the one we use at our tables, is to make everything that the character is matter, his history, his reputation, his skills, his relations, etc. 5e has a great mechanism for this, adv/dis. Are you talking to the warlord commanding the legions of Bel ? Then whoever has martial skills has advantage on his checks as he speaks the same language, even if he is not that charismatic&nbsp; and has few social skills. Are you speaking to a wizard ? Are you speaking with someone honorable or a trickster who values the savvy of the streets ? Are you speaking to someone you have connections to, possibly common friends / enemies / background ?In our Baldur's Gate campaign, the Assassin/Gloomstalker is a bhaalspawn, reviled by most (there is an interesting feature there), with fairly low charisma and few social skills, but she is the one speaking to the assassin's guild, the underworld, and now trying to recruit a cadre of Dogais (Assassin Devils). No-one else in the group feels entitled to do that, and we have a warlock and a sorceress in the party, with much more charisma and more social skills.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lyxen, post: 8447980, member: 7032025"] Indeed. Another way, which is the one we use at our tables, is to make everything that the character is matter, his history, his reputation, his skills, his relations, etc. 5e has a great mechanism for this, adv/dis. Are you talking to the warlord commanding the legions of Bel ? Then whoever has martial skills has advantage on his checks as he speaks the same language, even if he is not that charismatic and has few social skills. Are you speaking to a wizard ? Are you speaking with someone honorable or a trickster who values the savvy of the streets ? Are you speaking to someone you have connections to, possibly common friends / enemies / background ? In our Baldur's Gate campaign, the Assassin/Gloomstalker is a bhaalspawn, reviled by most (there is an interesting feature there), with fairly low charisma and few social skills, but she is the one speaking to the assassin's guild, the underworld, and now trying to recruit a cadre of Dogais (Assassin Devils). No-one else in the group feels entitled to do that, and we have a warlock and a sorceress in the party, with much more charisma and more social skills. [/QUOTE]

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