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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Asisreo" data-source="post: 8063678" data-attributes="member: 7019027">The DM fiats whether a skill is possible regardless. That's literally the explicit process of a DM adjudicating ability checks, period. If you're rolling, the DM has probably fiat'd that it was possible. Beasts and Idiots are the most dangerous thing mankind has ever faced. Especially idiots. They'll think they're helping while making the situation much worse. You want the idiots to step aside. But I was talking about good-aligned suggestions but it seems you've flipped it right back to evil-aligned things. And if you're looking for an argument that says persuasion is useless, you won't find one here. All skills have a spot (maybe not acrobatics). It's like if I don't come up with some fantastical thing every time, my point doesn't matter. Whether it's a bear, a troll, a T-rex, or a really dumb fiend, intimidation can manipulate them. Yep, generally. Yet there's always some that you'd swear had a death wish. But commoners have, indeed, acted like suicidal death cultists without being suicidal death cultists because they think they're tougher than they are or think they have nothing to lose. Hell, you're almost definitely playing a suicidal commoner or even a really dumb suicidal noble. The smart commoners would see you as such since adventuring is literally risking your life for seemingly no real good reason when you could've just taken up carpentry. The only reason your character doesn't seem like a suicidal commoner is because the DM never had a CR 13 undead monster behind a corridor at level 1 for snooping in places like undead crypts, and the DM instead put rats and skeletons in there to give you your game progression. There's no real reason why very high level undead can't just exist in an undead location at level 1 yet always at level 11+. The DM just balanced the encojnter for you, congrats, you were still really dumb for going through with it.</blockquote>

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