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<blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 2034784" data-attributes="member: 5143">I've seen a couple published adventures that say things like &quot;Since the doppleganger is very careful not to outright lie, the PCs don't get an sense motive checks against him unless he is required to lie.&nbsp; They get a sense motive check when he says I am &lt;insert name of person&gt; but not when he says 'I want you go get this book.'&quot;When I ran that adventure, I gave the PCs one sense motive check for the entire conversation to determine that the doppleganger wasn't what he appeared to be, however, the doppleganger easily fooled them.&nbsp; *grin*I ask everyone for their sense motive bonus and roll the checks myself when running an adventure.&nbsp; I got really fed up with people saying &quot;I sense motive&quot; on nearly every sentence of a person who was speaking.&nbsp; So, now I tell people &quot;I'll let you know if you sense anything beyond what I'm saying, of course you suspect him, he's a strange man in the middle of a dungeon, but what he says APPEARS to make sense unless I say otherwise.&nbsp; You can believe he is lying all you want, you can role play your character however you'd like.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Majoru Oakheart, post: 2034784, member: 5143"] I've seen a couple published adventures that say things like "Since the doppleganger is very careful not to outright lie, the PCs don't get an sense motive checks against him unless he is required to lie. They get a sense motive check when he says I am <insert name of person> but not when he says 'I want you go get this book.'" When I ran that adventure, I gave the PCs one sense motive check for the entire conversation to determine that the doppleganger wasn't what he appeared to be, however, the doppleganger easily fooled them. *grin* I ask everyone for their sense motive bonus and roll the checks myself when running an adventure. I got really fed up with people saying "I sense motive" on nearly every sentence of a person who was speaking. So, now I tell people "I'll let you know if you sense anything beyond what I'm saying, of course you suspect him, he's a strange man in the middle of a dungeon, but what he says APPEARS to make sense unless I say otherwise. You can believe he is lying all you want, you can role play your character however you'd like." [/QUOTE]

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