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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AnotherGuy" data-source="post: 9667982" data-attributes="member: 7029930">Something else that occurred in our game last night, the party came across a drow word.Now the understanding of this drow word, would help with an insight check later on, and out of the party members the surface elf and the orc were the only ones who understood elvish but not necessarily drow.In any even, I made them make a standard Intelligence check but gave the elf an additional 1d6 for expertise (mechanising their race). Despite the 1d20+1d6+5 modifier for Intelligence the player of the orc rolled higher.And this prompted me to use a technique from one of the narrative games I believe [USER=6790260]@EzekielRaiden[/USER] mentioned long way upthread (although it may have been [USER=6785785]@hawkeyefan[/USER], my memory is rubbish) whereby you are allowed to ask the player to provide a reason for their high knowledge check and they get to flesh out some character background during play.So I followed that advice, I asked the player of the orc, who is predominantly your hack-n-slash guy but is coming into his own, to give me a reason why his orc would understand the drow word.He hadn't yet fleshed out his backstory like the others in the group, but this useful technique encouraged a player like him to at least put something on the page which was great for the table and for him. So thanks for that!</blockquote>