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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Flyspeck23" data-source="post: 2684163" data-attributes="member: 10648">That about sums up my POV.You want to play a large half-orc barbarian killing stuff left and right, even though you're only 5'6"? Fine by me. You want to play a professor at Morgrave university, even though you're still in High School? Fine by me.This doesn't mean there's no roleplaying at my table, mind you. But what I do is add a bonus  to skill checks now and again, if I think that a) it helped the task at hand, and b) it was in character.Then again, I might not add a bonus but a malus to a skill check because of stupid behavior - the combat rules already penalize stupidity...(As a sidenote: if these dumb actions were in character I'll the character a XP award later. I don't penalize my players, I only penalize certain actions.)Believe it or not, but it is - to some degree or another.I've played with non-native speakers (my games are in German, and German was their second (or sometimes third <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ) language), and I saw no point to let this have any impact on the game.</blockquote>