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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nagol" data-source="post: 5467344" data-attributes="member: 23935">I think this comes back to my difference in thinking between "How can I exploit the situation?" and "What strength can I bring to bear?"A situation could be handled in a variety of ways where the different tactics the player can choose from have levels of difficulty attached that are appropriate to that approach.A player may have a terrrific ability in Intimidate, and a lesser ability in Diplomacy, but perhaps a gentler approach is simpler and more applicable.  Take the example of calming a fidgety child.  Both Intimidate (scaring the child into being quiet) and Diplomacy (distracting and soothing the child) are workable strategies.  The Intimidate has to hit just the right note or the child will start to bawl; the DC for the effective Intimidate is higher than the DC for Diplomacy.Another example would be a chatty but attentive guard who knows a particular password and is guarding the safe containing the password notebook.  Thievery is a perfectly good tactic, but is much more difficult than worming the password out of the guard though a subtle conversation.If the player looks to his sheet for what strengths can be brought to bear, he'll gravitate to to his area of speciality.  If the player tries to analyse the situation he'll look to a secondary ability as preferable.</blockquote>