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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GMforPowergamers" data-source="post: 8971172" data-attributes="member: 67338">My experience once a player realizes that if they say something "Dumb"* but they make a good roll they wonnt be penelized, or if they just can't think of a good way to do something there character SHOULD be good at they wont be told the character wont be able to... they try,It started for us back around the  end of 2000 beginning of 2001 with 3e. I tell these stories alot. We had a VERY clear divide before that between willing to try to RP and no... those that were smooth talkers ALWAYS did and the shy awkward people didn't... until we ended every discussion with "now roll for it"DId sometimes we get a good laugh about someone saying something that SHOULD or at least FELT like it should work not work... or something that felt like it shouldn't did... yupin the long term none of the players from even 6 years ago (let alone 20+) that were shy and awkward still are... in 3 different cases I can even say that it improved there out of game social  skills... and I still see it with new players.  Once you find you can try, you keep trying... and the more you try the better you get at it... and once you try a few times (sometimes a lot) at the game you find your confidence builds to try things not in the game... One player going so far as to say she would not have met her now husband had we not gone to rolling cha skills, cause her confidence allowed her to say "Hi" to the cute guy she would have a few years before not dared talk to.</blockquote>

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