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<blockquote data-quote="Flexor the Mighty!" data-source="post: 7487823" data-attributes="member: 1013">Yes player wit and cunning cannot be applied equally to all skills, but I don't really care if that is the case to be honest. I want my players to do everything they can to not roll the dice, but that can't be done in a lot of cases.&nbsp; That's cool. I want to keep the focus on the player rather than the PC as we are players sitting around a table playing games. If a attentive player picks up on all the clues and realizes that if they approach King Bill in a certain way, with comfort about his recently lost son and comments how the dastardly Count Jerk is a real...jerk, will get him to open up I'd rather reward that compared to just putting it down to a Diplomacy check. Sure it rewards players who are naturally gabby and good at that, and that is fine with me. IME it rewards engaged players rather than the guy who just says &quot;I'll make a skill check&quot;, which is what I want, player competence coming to the fore. Its probably obvious that I am not a fan of D&amp;D with a lot of skills, or any to be honest beyond that they can't possibly replicate at the table like most class skills. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Flexor the Mighty!, post: 7487823, member: 1013"] Yes player wit and cunning cannot be applied equally to all skills, but I don't really care if that is the case to be honest. I want my players to do everything they can to not roll the dice, but that can't be done in a lot of cases. That's cool. I want to keep the focus on the player rather than the PC as we are players sitting around a table playing games. If a attentive player picks up on all the clues and realizes that if they approach King Bill in a certain way, with comfort about his recently lost son and comments how the dastardly Count Jerk is a real...jerk, will get him to open up I'd rather reward that compared to just putting it down to a Diplomacy check. Sure it rewards players who are naturally gabby and good at that, and that is fine with me. IME it rewards engaged players rather than the guy who just says "I'll make a skill check", which is what I want, player competence coming to the fore. Its probably obvious that I am not a fan of D&D with a lot of skills, or any to be honest beyond that they can't possibly replicate at the table like most class skills. :) [/QUOTE]

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