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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 1066282" data-attributes="member: 172">If it's something off screen I don't want to waste table time on, I won't hesitate to say "make a diplomacy/bluff/gather information" roll.If it is pertinent to the story, I make the player role-play out the situation, and then set the DC (or assign DC modifiers) based on the role-playing. The way I see it, the player only really announces intention. How many times have you thought out a social interaction in your head and it turned out totally different in reality? Yeah, I thought so.So it goes with PCs. If a PC fails what seemed like an easy task when announced, it was because the character failed to pull it off for some reason... they came off as arrogant, they stammered or hesitated, or whatever.Occasionally, I'll give players a roll to have a second chance to rethink their speech if they are about to do something socially stupid.Sure, roleplaying is important, but part of the purpose of the system is to bridge the gap between the player and the character.</blockquote>