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<blockquote data-quote="Retros_x" data-source="post: 9609364" data-attributes="member: 7033171">I think putting mechanics like &quot;social combat&quot; into social encounters would take the fun out of courtly intrigue. Instead of fun courtly roleplaying you would roll dices all the time. IMO the rules are perfectly fine for courtly intrigue and its more a question of adventure design. If you would actually put a big focus on it, I think a different game would be a better fit.For me what modern D&amp;D is actually bad at is exploring. Exploring is for me the biggest pillar in the identity of D&amp;D, exploring dungeons and exploring wilderness is the most important part. And a lot of rules are there but the modern books are so bad at a) presenting those rules and b) explaining how to ACTUALLY run a good dungeon crawl or good hexcrawl.I had to learn all this stuff from third party sources, internet forums etc. Emberrassing for a game with &quot;dungeons&quot; in their name.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Retros_x, post: 9609364, member: 7033171"] I think putting mechanics like "social combat" into social encounters would take the fun out of courtly intrigue. Instead of fun courtly roleplaying you would roll dices all the time. IMO the rules are perfectly fine for courtly intrigue and its more a question of adventure design. If you would actually put a big focus on it, I think a different game would be a better fit. For me what modern D&D is actually bad at is exploring. Exploring is for me the biggest pillar in the identity of D&D, exploring dungeons and exploring wilderness is the most important part. And a lot of rules are there but the modern books are so bad at a) presenting those rules and b) explaining how to ACTUALLY run a good dungeon crawl or good hexcrawl. I had to learn all this stuff from third party sources, internet forums etc. Emberrassing for a game with "dungeons" in their name. [/QUOTE]

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