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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 2699084" data-attributes="member: 18549">Nobody does this.  The least that anyone does is this:Why?  Because "I bluff" doesn't mean anything.  In order to lie, you need to lie about something.  "I tell him they're not the droids they're looking for" contains some content.  It's a lie about a situation that involves an NPC.  But "I bluff" isn't even an action.  The very least you can use the skill for is "I use the Bluff skill to convince him that...", or at the very, very least "I use the Bluff skill to feint".  If the DM isn't given any idea of what your bluff is, he can't very well be expected to tell you whether they believe it.  That's just simple common sense, and everyone understands it, even the strawman gamer.What you're telling me is that you're satisfied with bare-minimum role-playing, because your Basic Role-player above is the bare minimum, and nobody gets any worse than that without having a few things wrong with them.</blockquote>