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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bumbles" data-source="post: 4807473" data-attributes="member: 83457">So how do they matter?  As I said, if you want to give bonuses, that's cool.  If you want to penalize...that is something I'd use sparingly.  If you want to require it...that's a bit too far.What exactly are you asking for?The only way describing your action can have an effect is if the GM chooses them to have one.  As for where you go, it depends, did it succeed or fail?  If it succeeded, then the PC gets closer to whatever their objective was, if it failed, then the NPC most likely gets offended.  The results of their offense can vary too widely for me to provide any input on it since you didn't describe circumstances (Just as their successes do).  Give me a city guard, a bartender, a beggar, a king, I can come up with something.  I don't need to worry about exactly what the PC might have said so much.  I'll use an example, [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKKHSAE1gIs"]Dr. Evil[/ame].  Sure it's funny that he keeps getting then numbers wrong in the movie, but while that can also be funny at the game, it can be unfun if you punish the players because of it.  That's a dynamic I don't like that much, hence my preference for abstracted mechanics with descriptions being an option that may give some bonus, may not matter, or in some rare circumstances which I won't rule out because I don't want to say never to it.</blockquote>