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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 6341059" data-attributes="member: 2011">If the DM does a lot of ambushes. In our current 5E campaign, the PCs went from level 1 to 5 (and just acquired 5). In those 4 levels, I ambushed them maybe 3 times. So yeah, I could see if the DM loves doing that stuff. It happens occasionally in my game.5E also appears to be even more about group stealth and such in order to ambush the NPCs instead.To me, ambushes should be cool things that take the party by surprise and make an encounter memorable. They shouldn't be used left and right because the DM wants to challenge his players.Actually, it restricts players from saying "I want Kragnor to go into the bar and ask about orcs" and instead forces them to roleplay a bit more "Kragnor walks into the bar and says: Give me a pint of your best. By the way, have you heard about any orcs in the area?".If I had a player who stuttered in my game in real life, I would still want him to roleplay the best he could. I would not penalize him for his impairment, just like I would not penalize anyone else with low social skills (and in RPGs, there are an occasional player with low social skills).I'm not asking for Laurence Olivier, I'm only asking for people to roleplay in character instead of out of character. Dice are used when I think that the player is not achieving his goal, if the player is not asking the right questions and I feel that his skill in a social skill would help, or if the player requests to roll his skill and gives a good explanation why he thinks it will help. But, he doesn't get to roll dice to influence the conversation, just because he himself cannot ask any good questions. If he cannot think of where he wants the conversation to go, I'm not just going to have him roll dice and throw a bunch of info at him. And I am especially not going to let him roll dice first before the conversation even starts.Even suave James Bond needs to know what he wants to talk about in order to be successful.Edit: typo.</blockquote>

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