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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8564970" data-attributes="member: 2209">For me as a DM, I care more about immersive roleplay than stats on a sheet. I want my players to play their concepts of their characters in the moments, and have the other players and me as DM react to their portrayals. I want players to roleplay whatever concept they want, not work towards the concepts of their stats.I think of the roleplay concepts though as how they approach things, not whether they are successful or not. So a Sherlock Holmes concept I expect the player to look for clues and think things through and try to solve things, not that they will solve things at a glance when they come up.I am not interested in playing contrary to people's portrayals, so if a high charisma, high persuasion character is played as abrasive and crude, I have no interest in playing NPCs reacting as if they were suave. I am more likely to react as I feel the NPC would to the actual roleplay that happens.I think stats should support the mechanical character build but that most any roleplay concept should work with most any mechanical stat build.I am fine with high int characters acting dumb or low stat int builds (like a tank fighter) played intelligently.I generally trust players to roleplay in character knowledge versus out of character knowledge.If I have puzzles or mysteries they are there to be interacted with. I try to be fine with players not figuring things out. If someone is playing a beer and pretzels joy of combat concept who will ignore most of the talking and puzzles that is fine. If someone wants to focus on the puzzles and intrigue fine. If someone focuses on the intrigue and puzzles but does not solve them, fine. The game will go on.I try to have rolls be for more abstract less immediate things like downtime activities or skill challenges where the players describe an approach. I might call for rolls if they are trying to figure something out over time without going through each step of the process. I have run a bunch of games though where figuring things out is the plot and so we go scene to scene with roleplaying and the players come up with their own theories on the mysteries as things develop.I like 5e's flexibility in DM adjudication, it allows me to RAW adjudicate everything according to my preferred style and to switch from one system of adjudication to another and to ignore the styles of adjudication I do not prefer. I also like that when I call for skill rolls the bounded accuracy means that it is much less a matter of specific character build than things were under the 3e d20 skill system. I am also a big fan of backgrounds as both a good conceptual hook and providing two non-class skills to every PC in 5e.</blockquote>

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