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<blockquote data-quote="Ryujin" data-source="post: 4968106" data-attributes="member: 27897">Regarding the attempts to assist issue, we tend toward requiring a description of how the other PC assists. This tends to eliminate the extraneous rolls rather quickly when the ideas are lacking, or obviously detrimental to the cause. &quot;I help to convince him to make a deal with us by hovering over the Cleric's shoulder and glowering menacingly.&quot; That's a -2 there, good fighter.Our SCs tend to be fairly free form, but there is no question when we're in a SC. The appropriate skills are announced and it's up to us, to role play how we make those checks. Being the most &quot;courtly minded&quot; player in the group I tend to lead the negotiations. When the 9 CHA fighter or Ranger pipes up, you know that things are unlikely to go well. The same can occasionally be said of our 16 CHA cleric though <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/ponder.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":hmm:" title="Hmmm&nbsp; &nbsp; :hmm:" data-shortname=":hmm:" /> The main thing is that we aren't just tossing out dice, because that's not our SC 'formula.' A skill role that isn't preceded or followed by an explanation as to how it was accomplished is no skill roll. The good thing about this is that appropriate use of powers or exploits can result in an effective automatic success, if intelligently played. We aren't bound by the tyranny of the dice.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ryujin, post: 4968106, member: 27897"] Regarding the attempts to assist issue, we tend toward requiring a description of how the other PC assists. This tends to eliminate the extraneous rolls rather quickly when the ideas are lacking, or obviously detrimental to the cause. "I help to convince him to make a deal with us by hovering over the Cleric's shoulder and glowering menacingly." That's a -2 there, good fighter. Our SCs tend to be fairly free form, but there is no question when we're in a SC. The appropriate skills are announced and it's up to us, to role play how we make those checks. Being the most "courtly minded" player in the group I tend to lead the negotiations. When the 9 CHA fighter or Ranger pipes up, you know that things are unlikely to go well. The same can occasionally be said of our 16 CHA cleric though :hmm: The main thing is that we aren't just tossing out dice, because that's not our SC 'formula.' A skill role that isn't preceded or followed by an explanation as to how it was accomplished is no skill roll. The good thing about this is that appropriate use of powers or exploits can result in an effective automatic success, if intelligently played. We aren't bound by the tyranny of the dice. [/QUOTE]

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