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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8566245" data-attributes="member: 29398">This sounds cool so far.And runs hard aground on a poor DM.Yes and no.  In the case of your attempt to check on others in the inn, all the DM has to do is have those NPCs respond naturally in character to a generally-unpleasant person coming up to them and checking their welfare: much more suspicion, rejection, or rebuffing than would be the case were it a higher-Cha character doing the checking.As for the dumb-as-rocks Barbarian, if he "happens to have heard a riddle before" once that's fine; but if-when it becomes a pattern there's a problem that needs sorting, be it by DM policing or that of other players*, as the player is not playing true to the character's known weakness.* - which IME is often far more effective.</blockquote>