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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6161272" data-attributes="member: 42582">Mearls saysA final table provides your character with something that sparks the beginning of your adventuring career and gives your character a key problem or question that needs an immediate solution. Perhaps you left the guild because your master was murdered under circumstances that point to you as a suspect. You might have been sent as an undercover agent to infiltrate the cartel that is working to undermine the guild. Your DM could also give you ideas based on the campaign, or you could come up with something on your own.Isn't this basically the "kicker" from Sorcerry? I remember on a blog years ago, maybe even before he joined WotC, Mearls posted about rediscovering the kicker as an RPG technique. Looks like he held onto that rediscovery!Also, on Diplomacy checks:I don't see any particularly tight connection between "OK. What are you saying?" and "speaking in character".I am perfectly happy with 1st person narration by players ("Your majesty, won't you fund our expedition? [Goes on to set out reasons A, B and C.]") and with 3rd person narration ("I explain to the king that he should fund our expedition, because otherwise A, B and C.") And I vary from one to the other when narrating NPC action, as the inclination takes me.But I still need the player to tell me what his/her PC is saying, whether that is 1st person or 3rd person narration, because otherwise I don't have enough information to adjudicate what success and failure would mean, because I don't know what it is that the player has put on the line via the action (eg there's a big difference between telling the king that if he funds your expedition you'll bring him a souvenir, and if he funds your expedition you'll be his servant for life)!.</blockquote>

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