Charlaquin
Goblin Queen (She/Her/Hers)
Correct.So, as I said, nothing is forbidden, everything is permitted.
That has nothing to do with making decisions based on out of character information. We could certainly discuss our policies on anachronistic or otherwise setting-inappropriate speech if you want, but it’s a very different topic than the one at hand. (For the record, my take is that it depends on the tone of the game. That kind of thing fit well in The Adventure Zone, but probably wouldn’t work as well in Dark Dice.)Jabbering about your Walkman dying because the Energizer Bunny didn't keep going and going and going, so you'll have to swing by Walmart and maybe pick up a Dr Pepper and some Twizzlers is perfectly acceptable because, well, there could be any reason at all why someone might say such things on a planet with no relationship to Earth and no such things as Walkmans, Energizers, Walmarts, Dr Pepper, or Twizzler.
In my opinion? It should be the player who gets to make that decision for their own character, without a doubt. That’s why I asked “if it isn’t the player, why not?”Either the DM or the table collectively. Who else?
You’re begging the question here. It is not, in my view, an abuse of anything, since the player (and only the player) is the one who gets to decide what their own character’s motives are and how their character acts on them. Now, if a player’s behavior is rude and disruptive, that’s an entirely different issue. But, since in the example, all of the players who’s characters don’t have flaws that allow them to gain Inspiration by eating the fruit decided not to do so, I assume they’re all good with the others doing so. So, who’s experience is it destroying, do you think?To turn it back on you, per the intentionally facetious statements above: Why do players get to abuse such latitude whenever they like, however they like, to their utmost advantage, despite it being rude to the other people at the table and completely destructive of the experience?
It doesn’t seem to me like either of us are doing that…?Two can play at the "let's make every possible presumption to support myself and thus deny everything the other side might comment upon."
frankly I don’t see any problem with it even if it was sudden. I’m just saying you seem to be reading things into the example that aren’t explicitly stated. The example notes that it’s a weird situation, so I don’t see the players’ suspicion as being sudden at all. I don’t even live in a world where Fey are real, and I know not to accept food from the mysterious well-dressed stranger who turns up in a place you wouldn’t expect any other people to be.Really? That's certainly how it reads to me. Not a whisper of it, and then immediately after the saving throw, then and only then is opposition voiced. Sounds explicitly sudden to me. We of course can simply ask @iserith if it was sudden or not.
That’s crazy to me. In a culture where hospitality is a big deal, the safest thing to do when you’re unsure of someone’s intentions is to behave agreeably, but cautiously. Don’t refuse anything they offer, but don’t consume anything you haven’t seen them consume first. That’s like… Dinner with the extreme conservative in-laws 101.No. Not in this context, especially not when it was explicitly said that hospitality is a big deal in this culture.
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