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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shardstone" data-source="post: 9290096" data-attributes="member: 6807784">Making a NPC stat block literally takes about a minute, it is very easy.Discover is not divination. Its possible to read things about people, and this is a huge trope in a huge number of entertainment media. But your example also makes the rules sound a lot stupider then they really are. You know the dude you're talking about likes this song because your Discover role reveals that he hums it to himself, or you find a note written by them someone, or something they say hints on this and you connect the dots. There is nothing limiting here. The two actions is just to kepe things moving, but the actions are liquid. It isn't like "I Attack," its describe an approach, pick a skill, see if you can do something the NPC might really like, and try to avoid things the NPC might really dislike. You keep going back to the landlord example, and I have to repeat, your landlord example is really, really, really stupid. Note I'm not calling you stupid, just this example you've fabricated. No one is using this to talk to landlords. Its for hashing out more serious or intrigue-based social encounters. You don't use this for every NPC. If you use it for landlords, its because that landlord has big importance to the overall scenario the players are going through. If coming up with these basic details for a big social encounter are too much for you as a DM, that's fine, but let's not pretend this is overcomplicated or overworked. This stuff is basic. It fits on one page of a book.</blockquote>

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