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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 9290921" data-attributes="member: 177">Maybe not.You seem to describe role-playing for an entire half hour before checking in mechanically - I think maybe the issue lies there.  That sounds like a... naïve game design for social mechanics.  That'd be like running an entire combat narratively, but then rolling a single to-hit on the last round, and abiding by that alone.If, instead, you work mechanical influences in small increments, several times over the encounter, and work those results into the narrative such that the player can respond to them, then it isn't all-or-nothing.  This is why the Skill Challenge form gets brought up - the mechanical input is incremental, not all-or-nothing.Or, at least not any more than it is in combat, where you can sometimes go through the fight for a half hour, and still have the result determined by one really good or bad roll at a crucial moment.  There's always a chance you choke and splutter wine on the Viceroy's velvet slippers, right?</blockquote>