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Message: <blockquote data-quote="iserith" data-source="post: 6834872" data-attributes="member: 97077">It's not "gaming the sytem." It's playing the game. Smartly. Even if my ability scores are in line with my concept as you might want them to be, I'm still going to strive to avoid ability checks.Allow me to put it another way, since clearly my humor was lost on you. I would advise the player to create personality traits, ideals, bonds, or flaws that fit his or her concept and can be played to fairly easily so as to gain Inspiration to apply to Intelligence checks. Play to your concept and get resources you can apply toward shoring up your weak areas. That seems like a good incentive to drive players toward roleplay, wouldn't you say?Nothing about what I suggested necessitates Watson doing all the heavy lifting - that's just how you choose to perceive it. They discuss matters. Sherlock's player gets a bonus to the check. The mechanics are giving incentive to interact and develop a relationship with another character. Is that bad?</blockquote>