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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ruemere" data-source="post: 5393118" data-attributes="member: 5515">It's a matter of managing responsibilities. Delegating a job to a player can produce time savings, improving GM's availability.If I do it in a nice way, the player is likely to find it rewarding - she (or he) is likely to experience greater degree of immersion and freedom. On the other hand, if I forget to include passive check, I may be blamed for making a mistake.Everyone ends up as a winner, or, in case things go bad, they are no worse than in case of GM-does-everything.Strangely enough, the guys with +20 Sense Motive in my party often do not use the skill. Sometimes, at the end of the conversation, or when they feel that the person they met seemed untrustworthy, they do. Otherwise, they prefer Perception/Stealth scene checks, and draw conclusions on their own.Though it may be just that I consider Charisma to be an important ability, and most of thoroughly rotten villains are quite charming, honest, forthcoming, helpful... until the showdown time comes.For example, a PC was requested by an important official to act in his stead at a party, as the official felt somewhat indisposed. Of course, the PC knew something fishy was going on, he just did not expect to be interrogated under several truth seeking spells about nasty stuff. By local military and civil commanders none the less. It was a grueling experience, probably as pleasant as dancing on broken glass.Yet the evening was far from over - he was in cruel poke-slave tournament (slaves, treated to drugs and told to kill each other), revelation that the villain who made him do this, was himself (or a twin) with a bit more advanced version of the same mental illness, being warned by himself that he was going to be assassinated at the end of the evening by no one else them his other older self, and then, despite precautions, being poisoned almost to death with black lotus powder, by - probably - his other self.In the end, the numerous twists, careful bluffing, application of Sense Motive and last second teleport into the arms of party cleric, allowed him to survive. Thanks to the rules listed above, the number of rolls was surprisingly low despite large number of events.The other players were not bored. They were attacked, one of them was killed and several others were heavily injured as troops of a different villain attempted to ambush them (2 flesh golems, 3 Assassins, 2 Sorcerers, about 12 Rogues, several warriors).5 hour long session <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Regards,Ruemere</blockquote>

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