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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MarauderX" data-source="post: 844433" data-attributes="member: 9990">I dunno what to make of all of it... but let me spill some things from the top of my head.It sounds like the DM doesn't really deal with social characters too well to begin with.  You should be befriending everyone like a rock star or at the very least a very friendly salesman, but I don't think the DM is ready to handle pure role-playing characters.  It also seems that the DM is forgetting that the character is in no way a reflection of you.  If you try to role-play it out, it may sound really contrived and cheesy to the DM, but he has to realize that someone of your caliber CHA will smooth it over perfectly.  In your world, I think there are a lot of half-baked stories about your surroundings that you might wish the DM to define.  I like the DM to have a long back-story to the world you are in, about the surroundings, other races, major events in history that have shaped the world you are in now, etc.  Presently I am playing a bard that is mostly a social character, and I threw a bunch of ranks in diplomacy & bluff just in case our infiltration of a city of evil guys goes awry.  He too doesn't have much firepower but has managed to talk the party through the main gates and into the thick of it without any confrontation... yet.  I think the rest of the party has been grateful for his social skills that they all lack, and I am sure they will save his skin in any fights to come.  To me it sounds like your DM is more comfortable running a campaign where all he has to worry about it is calculating the CRs of critters to throw at you, with little role playing except some plot lines thrown at you for the sake of having an adventure... too bad all you can do is just go along for the ride.</blockquote>

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