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<blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 4136775" data-attributes="member: 9037">My advice to him about his character design was not meant to be jumping all over him. I may be a new DM but I am not a newbie to the game and have played and made many a 3.0/3.5 character far more than he has. I was trying to help him make the character do what he wants it do using the rules.He said he wanted to be good at melee and the party face, I suggested he make his con a 10 so at least he was not taking any minuses in it and I also suggested that if he wanted to be a party face to max out diplomacy. I have tried not to penalize him because of his build. The modifiers I used for him in the encounter I thought were not impossible to overcome. Maybe they were it added a +4 to his target numbers. I have been really second guessing myself on this.One of the things I am thinking of doing is making certain skill rolls for the players and telling them the outcome. It is suggested in the players handbook that the DM make the roll for disguise checks. I was thhinking about this and I thought that is not a bad idea for some of the other social skills.Take sense motive if the player suspects an NPC is being dishonest and they roll badly and I say no you don't sense that the NPC is being dishonest. I am sure that a little metagaming is going to creep in. The thought well I rolled badly so he may be lying.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Elf Witch, post: 4136775, member: 9037"] My advice to him about his character design was not meant to be jumping all over him. I may be a new DM but I am not a newbie to the game and have played and made many a 3.0/3.5 character far more than he has. I was trying to help him make the character do what he wants it do using the rules. He said he wanted to be good at melee and the party face, I suggested he make his con a 10 so at least he was not taking any minuses in it and I also suggested that if he wanted to be a party face to max out diplomacy. I have tried not to penalize him because of his build. The modifiers I used for him in the encounter I thought were not impossible to overcome. Maybe they were it added a +4 to his target numbers. I have been really second guessing myself on this. One of the things I am thinking of doing is making certain skill rolls for the players and telling them the outcome. It is suggested in the players handbook that the DM make the roll for disguise checks. I was thhinking about this and I thought that is not a bad idea for some of the other social skills. Take sense motive if the player suspects an NPC is being dishonest and they roll badly and I say no you don't sense that the NPC is being dishonest. I am sure that a little metagaming is going to creep in. The thought well I rolled badly so he may be lying. [/QUOTE]

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