Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="KidSnide" data-source="post: 5732338" data-attributes="member: 54710">What is the point of the character sheet?  Come on...  Nobody is suggesting that character abilities should be irrelevant.  I think it's OK to play a game where all NPC interaction is handled with role-playing and no specific rules.  (This used to be the only way to handle these scenes.)  If your character has a Cha of 6, you just role-play it that way.  If your have a Cha of 6 and play as persuasively as possible, then the other people at the table suggest to either alter your style to match your or get another character.  Yeah, a game like this has a downside in that you can't play a good Cha 18 character unless you have a little Cha yourself, but it's still a ton of fun.  At least for me, it sounds more fun than a zero-player skill game.It's also OK to play a game where the player skill and the character skill both come into play.  IMG, the players have to role-play out most important persuasion scenes.  (The PCs are diplomats, so this comes up a lot.)  When it's time to decide how the NPC responds, I have them make a Diplomacy check, but I give them a +/- 5 or 10 modifier based on what issue they chose to reference in the persuasion and a +/- 2 or 5 based on how well they did it.  It's hardly the only way to play, but I think it lets them play out the scene and bring their personal skills to bear (which is fun) and it also allows the differences in character persuasiveness to be meaningful.I don't have a problem with a game where the only skill is playing D&D.  If your players prefer that, then go ahead.  It just seems less fun to me.-KS</blockquote>

Verification