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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 5810503">The interesting thing about challenging te player rather than the character is it can really put the player in his pcs shoes. I find it much more immersive to adress the duke directly and question him abut his brother's murder than simply making a roll for it (even if you rp the results of that roll). Personally i am not opposed to social skills. I use them in my own games. But i find, for me, they usually dampen rp and immersion a bit unless used prudently. It is personal preference of course. Try playing an edition without social skills for a few sessions and see how it goes. I dont think everyone will be swayed, but i am sure some folks will be surprised how differently the game runs and feels (in some positive ways). In my own campaigns, i have struck a bit of a compromise. Social skill rolls are made when the player isnt roleplaying his character effectively (his character has 18 chr and ranks in diplomacy but the player struggles to speak with npcs), when the player overperforms (he has chr 3 but is acting like bill clinton), etc. So if a player walks up to an npc and ass uf he knows where the duke's brother went last night in 1st person dialogue, i dont usually roll for that. I decide how the npc responds based on what the playerr actualky said and the npcs motives.</blockquote>