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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CreamCloud0" data-source="post: 9288177" data-attributes="member: 7034710">i'd be pretty certain a monster would die pretty quickly if not instantaneously if they had their throat slashed open by a longsword, and i can describe my fighter doing just that regardless of their stats, does the GM let my fighter bypass the roll in that situation? if i don't get to do that then why does the guy in the social situation get to do it?you get to describe exactly how you act in a social encounter, so of course you're not going to come in and intentionally shoot your attempt in the foot by saying how you belch loudly in their face in the middle of your speech, or how you splutter and stumble over your words putting your foot in your mouth, just as i wouldn't describe my fighter tripping on some uneven ground as they charge the ogre, or fumbling their crossbow bolts as they try to load their weapon, neither speaker nor warrior is going to describe how they mess up their attempt, persuasion and social interactions are much more than just the words they say but in one of the two situations everything is going to play out like how the player describes and the other is still going to have to roll the dice every time to make sure it doesn't go sideways, it's a blatant double standard and i hate it.</blockquote>