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<blockquote data-quote="papakee" data-source="post: 3137885" data-attributes="member: 4262">Me, the DM:&nbsp; Ok, so you've broken into the massive complex of the supermegaconglomerate, and accessed their central mainframe!&nbsp; What do you do?Player:&nbsp; I'll start hacking into the system.&nbsp; My character has been itching to do this for years!&nbsp; I sit down at the computer and place my keycard into the slot.&nbsp; Loading a quick password breaking program, I press the enter button and watch the numbers flash across the screen Matrix-style.&nbsp; If an alarm starts to go off, snip with the wire clippers on the third green wire coming from back of the computer-box-thingy and pray. Me, the DM: Roll Total BS Yes..plausible no..possible no....More interesting that just rolling a die, Yes.&nbsp; Roleplayed, Yes.&nbsp; Used Skill aka roll-played, Yes.Give a player any situation and he should be sufficiently ready to spew out some cliche or total BS that has some tinge of sounding half way good...and if not good at least he tried..and thats worth alot more than a dice roll.&nbsp; I think what people miss in this argument is not whether the roleplay is feasible, its if it is attempted.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="papakee, post: 3137885, member: 4262"] Me, the DM: Ok, so you've broken into the massive complex of the supermegaconglomerate, and accessed their central mainframe! What do you do? Player: I'll start hacking into the system. My character has been itching to do this for years! I sit down at the computer and place my keycard into the slot. Loading a quick password breaking program, I press the enter button and watch the numbers flash across the screen Matrix-style. If an alarm starts to go off, snip with the wire clippers on the third green wire coming from back of the computer-box-thingy and pray. Me, the DM: Roll Total BS Yes..plausible no..possible no....More interesting that just rolling a die, Yes. Roleplayed, Yes. Used Skill aka roll-played, Yes. Give a player any situation and he should be sufficiently ready to spew out some cliche or total BS that has some tinge of sounding half way good...and if not good at least he tried..and thats worth alot more than a dice roll. I think what people miss in this argument is not whether the roleplay is feasible, its if it is attempted. [/QUOTE]

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