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<blockquote data-quote="Bill Zebub" data-source="post: 9866193" data-attributes="member: 7031982">Well, it is forcing a story on the players.&nbsp; But that's because there is a mechanic (or various mechanics) for turning characters to stone, and presumably those mechanics were followed in order to get to that point.This is, of course, the General TTRPG thread, and there are lots of games other than D&amp;D and its derivatives.&nbsp; So if the style of play you describe is based on a game where there is a explicit mechanic for social skills...something like &quot;Intimidate: as an action a character may make an opposed Charisma:Wisdom check against other characters.&nbsp; Any targeted characters failing will be unable to take offensive actions against the originating character&quot; or something like that...then I would agree that in that particular game this is a specific action.EDIT: On the other hand, I'm not sure I would persuaded by &quot;She yells Then be turned to stone! and starts chanting and waving her hands.&nbsp; She's not actually a wizard, but her Performance check was a Nat 20, so you believe you have been turned to stone...&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bill Zebub, post: 9866193, member: 7031982"] Well, it [I]is[/I] forcing a story on the players. But that's because there is a mechanic (or various mechanics) for turning characters to stone, and presumably those mechanics were followed in order to get to that point. This is, of course, the General TTRPG thread, and there are lots of games other than D&D and its derivatives. So if the style of play you describe is based on a game where there is a explicit mechanic for social skills...something like "Intimidate: as an action a character may make an opposed Charisma:Wisdom check against other characters. Any targeted characters failing will be unable to take offensive actions against the originating character" or something like that...then I would agree that in that particular game this is a specific action. EDIT: On the other hand, I'm not sure I would persuaded by "She yells [I]Then be turned to stone![/I] and starts chanting and waving her hands. She's not actually a wizard, but her Performance check was a Nat 20, so you [I]believe[/I] you have been turned to stone..." [/QUOTE]

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