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Message: <blockquote data-quote="howandwhy99" data-source="post: 3841648" data-attributes="member: 3192">The old debate that there should be a roll to emulate high Cha characters was won before it began IMO.  The game has had a Reaction Adjustment since the beginning.  It was a simple 2d6 roll with a slight chance of your character having an ability modifier to it.  (13-15 +1, 16-17 +2, 18 +4... and yeah, +4 was too much)I prefer to give players an incentive to roleplay by letting them know what they do can affect that roll too.  (just like any roll)  Reaction Adjustment can even be dropped, if you want to roleplay without random consequences.  Even then that's just applying the rules for PC vs. PC to NPCs.  The game never expected players to have to change their minds because someone rolled better than they did when they talked to each other.  They just wanted to roleplay and have fun.  No one wanted a super smooth PC to force their PC into agreeing with them just because the dice said so. When interacting with NPCs, I have no problem allowing roleplaying to decide results alone when those end results are in the PCs' favor.  In such a case, I would still make a roll, but it'd be a roll with modifiers so high it could not fail.  In the opposite case, where they failed horribly at roleplaying (like foully insulting the king), I'd try and think of some way for them to succeed and then apply a negative modifier on their roll that does not negate the possibility of success.  Do they need to know some rolls are automatic successes beforehand?  No.  But roleplaying is rewarded when it is the only significant means to modify the roll.  Making characters with mechanical bonuses beyond what roleplay can alter, roleplaying is actually hindered. Roleplaying should always be the most important modifier to a roleplaying encounter's success.Is it okay once in awhile for it not to be? Sure, but it shouldn't be the status quo according to the rules IMO.  Roleplaying game rules should encourage and reward roleplaying rather than stifle it.</blockquote>

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