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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DonTadow" data-source="post: 2702926" data-attributes="member: 22622">WOOOHHHHHH. I NEVER  said get rid of Cha based skills.  They are very important.  My stance is that the mechanics support the role playing, not vice versa.  I think my case has been pretty adamant about keeping the mechanics, but not letting the mechanics BE the role playing.  Read Mallus posts on here and that pretty much sums up my opinion.  A Big thing in my games (which is about to start in 12 minutes) is to make sure that all my pcs skills are used.  Depending on what is going on I might ask them to make a roll and I might not.  In my head, I do exactly waht Damian says. I give them a take 10 on certain rolls if they have ranks in it and the task is not overly absurb.  Case in point, If the scout in my party is trying to talk her way into the goblin prison holdings  and the party have guard uniforms on shell say something like. I walk up to the guard and tell him we are here to see the prisoners. The goblin isn't all that smart and he's not suspcious.  NOw, the rules say i do a bluff check, but the scout has a 8 in bluff.  Yeah she could roll a 1 but 1s don't automiatically fail on skill checks.  So knowing her bluff rank, I avoid the roll and accept the bluff as an automatic success.  Why do I do this? because if you followed the rules you'd be rolling bluff, diplomacy or intimidate on every single npc dialogue, thus slowing upthe game.  I do not support taking dice rolls out of the game especially charisma based ones, but I do support dms picking and choosing their spots.  I played in a diceless game for a time and though fun, there were just times I realized how important rolling dice on skill checks were.  That said, my major position is to NOT take the role playing out of the role playing game.  I don't think that circumstance bonuses on role playing areneeded and I don't use them.  I only initiate circumstance bonuses on situations (player is wearing guard uniforms).    The role playing is there for flavor, but the flavor is the meat of the game.  There is no mechanic without the role playing.  BTW.  Sorry I've been MIA this weekend, had a couple of party's and two long rpgs</blockquote>

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