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<blockquote data-quote="Traveon Wyvernspur" data-source="post: 6074450" data-attributes="member: 73201">I prefer ROLE playing to ROLL playing in these situations. What I mean by that is that I have the PC's actually talk to the NPC's the way they would try to talk someone into doing something or not doing something BEFORE I ask for a roll of their dice. Based on how they talk to the NPC's I will either give a bonus or a penalty to them for the upcoming check (between -10 and +10). The caveat here is that if they are good enough to convince with their role playing, I don't ask for an actual roll and allow them to convince the NPC to do what they wish.This does two things:1) Gives them a chance to immerse themselves in the game more via the role-playing.2) Gives actual positives (with a chance to auto-win) before the roll of the dice on the table. I've never been a fan of straight up roll-playing in the social challenges or skill checks, it just doesn't seem like a good way to ROLE play in this ROLE PLAYING GAME. Too many people get hung up on the dice determining everything and forget about their imaginations and immersion into these fantasy worlds.Just my 2 cents,Trav</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Traveon Wyvernspur, post: 6074450, member: 73201"] I prefer ROLE playing to ROLL playing in these situations. What I mean by that is that I have the PC's actually talk to the NPC's the way they would try to talk someone into doing something or not doing something BEFORE I ask for a roll of their dice. Based on how they talk to the NPC's I will either give a bonus or a penalty to them for the upcoming check (between -10 and +10). The caveat here is that if they are good enough to convince with their role playing, I don't ask for an actual roll and allow them to convince the NPC to do what they wish. This does two things: 1) Gives them a chance to immerse themselves in the game more via the role-playing. 2) Gives actual positives (with a chance to auto-win) before the roll of the dice on the table. I've never been a fan of straight up roll-playing in the social challenges or skill checks, it just doesn't seem like a good way to ROLE play in this ROLE PLAYING GAME. Too many people get hung up on the dice determining everything and forget about their imaginations and immersion into these fantasy worlds. Just my 2 cents, Trav [/QUOTE]

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